Yan Lingyu

By the time Li Qingran realized she had been transplanted into a book, she had already muddled through seventeen years. 
Growing up together as childhood sweethearts with the male protagonist Xie Ying’an, their relationship was rather passable. 
Endowed with the halo of the male lead, Xie Ying’an was like a hacked character from birth: good-looking, from a good family, with good academics... 
Li Qingran vaguely remembers that she was a female supporting character in the book, whose ending was not good due to constantly making trouble for the female protagonist. 
Li Qingran shuddered, feeling all too familiar with this plot; getting involved or not could both lead to trouble, so she needed to come up with some strategies to cope...
PS: Unrequited love theme, male and female leads are high school students, and they do not engage in early romance.

I Might Have Fallen in Love With My Childhood Sweetheart

Morning light streamed through the glass into the room, a beam hitting my eyes, terribly uncomfortable, finally waking me from my hangover.


My head throbbed painfully as I struggled to get up and draw the curtains.


It had been rainy for several days; today the sunshine was rare and splendid. Standing before the window, I took a deep breath, my gaze pausing briefly on the garden in the backyard.


My wife, Wen Shiyi, held a pair of scissors, pruning the flower branches, sunlight dappled on her face, making her skin appear pale and translucent.


Suddenly, I lost all desire to bask in the sunlight, pulling the curtains shut and sitting back down on the bed.


After a while, someone knocked on the bedroom door from outside, Wen Shiyi's voice trailing in.


I responded to her without opening the door.


Her soft voice came from outside, "Breakfast is ready, come out and have some, won't you?"


Spin-off: The Past Life of Xie Ying'an