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

Liang Zhouyue added Ruan Yu on WeChat before leaving and had also arranged their next meeting.


Walking alone by the roadside, with the relentless stream of cars to one side and the bustling crowd on the other, she was in a jumble of complex emotions—there was relief as well as helpless sighs.


Relief that she hadn't fallen for a wanderer like Chen Dan, the kind who wouldn't stay for any woman.


Sighs, because affairs of the heart are so convoluted, a careless step could lead to irredeemable consequences, a self-inflicted misery.


The woman's delicate sigh was but a drop in the ocean of the impending cold winter landscape; when the cold wind blew, Liang Zhouyue couldn't think too much and quickly walked toward the taxi waiting area.


In mid-December, the juniors at Hua University got their winter break, and the final exams for all the courses Liang Zhouyue taught had ended.


Chapter 79: Rebellious Bone