Seventeen Vine Moon

Jiang Li first met Liang Zhou Yue while she was uncomfortably dressed in a gown, hiding in his resting room to adjust her attire. 
Seeing him, she became so nervous that she couldn't pull up the zipper, her embarrassment palpable. 
That day, Jiang Li felt an unusual tug at his heartstrings and helped her with the zipper twice. 
Upon their next encounter, he was the campus prince, and she was everyone's darling. 
He played basketball on the field, while she, in her flowing dress, sat in her boyfriend's passenger seat. 
It was then that Jiang Li understood he had to see things through to the bitter end. 
To seize love forcefully, to take advantage of her vulnerability. 
After all, such a beautiful woman should naturally belong to him. 

Liang Zhou Yue never thought she would be liked by a man five years her junior. 
He was rebellious, cold, proud, and remote, but he always responded to her every request. 
On a hot summer day, Liang Zhou Yue was stopped by a downpour at the entrance of the teaching building, with swirling filthy water and sludge on the steps below. 
As she worried about how to return to her dorm, a man's rigid spine bent in front of her. 
Jiang Li's tone was always so languid, casually stirring distress: "Sister, I'm afraid you're scared. I especially came to carry you home today." 
In that moment, Jiang Li, who had never gotten close to a girl before, submitted to her before everyone.

Deliberate Infatuation

The man's lips were inches away, but his large hand was placed over her heart, never taking the opportunity to offend anywhere else.


He was feeling her surging heartbeat—


"Sister, your heart is beating very fast."


Jiang Li spoke with utmost seriousness, as if he were a doctor treating a patient, rather than a man and woman collapsed on the bed, their intimacy entwined. Their breaths and gazes were already tangled, and it was impossible to distinguish whose breath was whose.


He supported his own weight and didn't press down completely on Liang Zhouyue.


Her breath had yet to settle, and as she looked up at him, fear overshadowed the shame in her eyes, "Get up quickly."


They never should have been together in such a position.


Chapter 27 Bullying