【?⬛+? | Casual Relationship Turned Serious | Female Secret Crush → Mutual Secret Crush | Pseudo-Stand-in】
Many people were waiting to see Liao Qingyan make a fool of herself.
Everyone knew her family had gone bankrupt years ago, that she no longer belonged to this social circle. The only reason she stubbornly refused to leave, people assumed, was because she had once been Zhou Jin’s first love back in high school. She was trying to gamble on their old connection and pull off a carp-leaping-the-dragon-gate miracle. But the Zhou family’s threshold was not something an ordinary person could ever cross.
At one gathering, Zhou Jin was planning to propose. And the intended was naturally not Liao Qingyan.
A torrential rain poured down from nowhere. Rides were impossible to find. And her dress got stained.
Liao Qingyan waited in a pavilion for the rain to stop. A car pulled up. In the back seat sat Bo Sinian. The true center of their circle.
Perhaps seeing how miserable and bedraggled she looked, Bo Sinian politely asked if she needed help.
Liao Qingyan laughed. “If you really want to help, how about sleeping with me?”
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Bo Sinian accidentally overheard Liao Qingyan talking to a close friend. The friend asked her why she kept up such an ambiguous relationship with him.
Liao Qingyan paused for a moment, then said, “He… looks like someone I like.”
Bo Sinian proposed ending their arrangement. Liao Qingyan shrugged, completely indifferent. “I got tired of your circle’s stupid rules and nonsense ages ago.”
Overnight, Liao Qingyan withdrew from Bo Sinian’s social circle and vanished without a trace.
No one knew where she’d gone.
She was smooth, worldly, and never spoke a single truthful word.
Bo Sinian thought he must have lost his mind to use every connection at his disposal to find someone like her. Just to continue being someone else’s “stand-in.”
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Only later did Bo Sinian learn the truth.
There had never been anyone who looked like him.
Only him.
It had always been only him.
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HE | Female Secret Crush → Mutual Secret Crush | Casual Relationship Turned Serious | Both Pure
Melodramatic, bittersweet | Over-the-top Mary Sue | Self-indulgent writing | Flawed characters everywhere | Neither lead knows how to communicate | Enter with caution
Tags: Modern Romance, Mutual Affection, Elite Protagonists, Drama
Main Characters: Liao Qingyan, Bo Sinian
One-Sentence Summary: ?⬛ Casual relationship turns serious, secret crush comes true ?
Theme: Love is the ultimate courage
