Living With a Temperamental Adonis: 99 Proclamations of Love (Completed)

Our Youth

When Su Yiting was seven, she became Lu Qiaochen's schoolmate.

Lu Qiaochen was in the second year, and Su Yiting was just a first year. Their classrooms were in buildings that were about a hundred meters apart from each other, but Su Yiting would find Lu Qiaochen's shadow in the stairwell of her classroom's building during classes. Every time, he would have various kinds of snacks, and since they knew each other, Lu Qiaochen would share some with her.

The children's world was simple and filled with innocence. Those snacks were like honey, sweeting Su Yiting's heart. It was then that she got really close to Lu Qiaochen. After school, when they were waiting for their respective parents, they would play with each other on the field.

That year, Su Yiting accidentally shattered the teacher lounge's window with the pebble that she was toying with. It was Lu Qiaochen who shouldered the blame. The teacher punished him by making him sweep the field for an entire week, and his parents were summoned to the school.

When Su Yiting was in the second year, she failed her end of term exam. Afraid of being scolded by her mother who was waiting for her at home, Su Yiting hid herself in the bathroom and refused to come out.

In the end, it was Lu Qiaochen who came to her with the solution. He tore up her results and told Su Yiting's mother confidently and openly that he had accidentally lost Su Yiting's results, but she was definitely the top-scorer of their class.

Song Qingchun believed him, and she was overjoyed. However, that only lasted until they reached home. Lu Qiaochen had no idea that Su Yiting's father had superpowers who exposed her scheme the moment she reached home. Su Yiting's deceit earned her mother's ire, and she was grounded for two weeks.

When Su Yiting was in the third year, Lu Qiaochen's classroom moved to the building that was closest to the track field. This meant that Lu Qiaochen had a clear view of the field from his class room.

One Wednesday afternoon, when Lu Qiaochen was attending a self-study class, Su Yiting was attending a physical education class on the field. When she was running track, she accidentally tripped and fell to the floor. The pen flew from his hand, and the young man dashed out of the room, ignoring the questions that his teacher sent his way. After he arrived at the field and saw that Su Yiting had only suffered a minor injury, he sighed in relief, but before he could do anything else, behind him came the stern warning of the discipline teacher.

When Su Yiting was in the fourth year, she accidentally sprained her ankle, and it was Lu Qiaochen who carried her all the way home.

When Su Yiting was in the fifth year, Lu Qiaochen skipped a grade and entered a high school that was two kilometers away.

When Su Yiting was in the sixth year, it was Lu Qiaochen who fetched her to and from school every day on his bicycle even though his own school was in the opposite direction from her school.

Su Yiting's high school was the same as Lu Qiaochen's. This time, their classrooms were not in separate buildings but in the same one. Lu Qiaochen was on the third floor, and Su Yiting was on the fourth floor.

Youths in high school, as they went through the awkward years, stopped hanging out with people from the opposite sex like how they used to in primary school.

Boys hung out with boys, and girls hung with girls. Other than forced group activities, there would not be much interaction between the two. So, whenever there was a couple that got too close, there would be the inevitable rumors.

It was thus that Lu Qiaochen and Su Yiting, who had known each other since they were little kids, became the main characters of a circulating rumor.

It was on one afternoon, when Su Yiting, who was in first year of high school at the time, was chatting with her friends that she was asked whether the Lu Qiaochen downstairs was her boyfriend that she realized that she had been the main character of a rumor for so long.

At the time, she had yet to understand the meaning of boyfriend. She looked at her friend with confusion and blinked innocently before asking, "What is a boyfriend?"

Her friend was made speechless by her innocence. Taking up the role as her teacher, she started lecturing Su Yiting on the topic of love and hate.

The more her friend explained, the more confused Su Yiting became. Her friend, who eventually got tired of talking, pulled out several actually good romance novels from her bag and passed them to Su Yiting. In a tone that sounded like a wuxia master talking to her disciple, she said, "After you finish these few books, you'll understand everything."

So magical? Su Yiting stared at the stack of books curiously before thanking her friend and accepting them.

After she got home and finished her homework, she was reminded of the books that her friend had given her. She selected a random title and started to read. When she started the first page, she couldn't stop, and she read through the night. The next day, Su Yiting was practically half-asleep in class. She was caught sleeping by her teacher, who punished her by having her stand for ten minutes straight.

Su Yiting used one week to finish the first novel, and another five days to finish another... Just like that, Su Yiting was pulled into the world of web novels by her friend. Regardless of whether it was a digital book or a physical book, she was a fan.

It was common for girls to dream, to dream up a romantic up, a prince on a white horse. With the influence of the web novels, the dream only became more pronounced in Su Yiting's mind.

She started to imagine the type of man she would fall in love with and the kind of love story they would make. Su Yiting submerged herself in her dream for as long as a year, and when she was in the third year of high school, Su Yiting finally found the man of her dream.

That year, her rumored boyfriend, Lu Qiaochen, had moved up to senior school, and they were separated into different schools once more.

That year, her first period came, and even her chest started to swell like balloons.

When there was still a month to her midterms, she met Liang Yang, who wore a white shirt at an activity organized by the school. The young man was fresh and clean.

It was Liang Yang who pursued Su Yiting.

It all started with a love letter written on a blue stationery set. Liang Yang's handwriting was like its owner, nice to the eyes, and his words were poetic.

Su Yiting instantly fell from this first assault. Her young girl's heart flooded with love, and after a night's hesitation, she decided to reply with a letter of her own, promising to be his girlfriend.

Before the letter was even written, Su Yiting started to imagine the type of love story she would share with Liang Yang.

Eloping because their parents barred them from being together... the tragedy of a fatal illness...

In any case, she imagined the type of plot she read in the web novels happening to herself and Liang Yang.

Naturally, Su Yiting became a pair with Liang Yang.

They would secretly get together at the small garden behind the school after class. Every time, Liang Yang would give her cute little snacks. They weren't as delicious as the important snacks Lu Qiaochen once shared with her, but in Su Yiting's eyes, the snacks from Liang Yang looked like roses, each more beautiful than the last.

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Lu Qiaochen found out Su Yiting was in a relationship with Liang Yang three days after they became official.