Description:
In sweet romance novels, the heroine is soft, gentle, and impossibly charming. The male lead spoils her without restraint. The second male lead is obsessively in love with her. The third male lead watches over her in silence. One by one, outstanding men circle around her like stars around the moon.
But there is also another male lead.
A boy destined to die young.
He suffers from a congenital illness, his life hanging by a fragile thread. Because he once helped the heroine in the past, she treats him with a rare kind of warmth — a small difference that sparks quiet jealousy among the handsome and powerful men around her.
Yet no matter what he feels, no matter how much he hides behind lowered lashes and clenched fists, his ending never changes.
He dies in the summer of his eighteenth year.
Xia Zhen has lived in this world for more than ten years before she finally realizes the truth — she is a transmigrator. In this story, she was originally arranged to become the second male lead’s fiancée, a cannon-fodder character destined to grow twisted with jealousy and fall into villainy.
Fortunately, fate shifts.
The engagement never happens, and she avoids stepping onto the path of becoming a vicious supporting character.
That is when she begins to notice her neighbor.
The boy next door is always pale, always quiet, always unwell. When she occasionally visits him, he sits in his wheelchair, hands clenched so tightly that his nails dig into his palms. He avoids looking at her, as if even meeting her eyes requires too much strength.
Curious, she once asks lightly,
“Did you want to kiss me?”
His denial comes too fast.
“No.”
But his ears turn red. His face grows tense.
Xia Zhen simply nods.
“Oh.”
Much later, the kind and lovely heroine remembers the boy who once showed her kindness. Quietly, she makes up her mind to repay him.
One day, surrounded by her overprotective admirers, she eagerly pushes open the hospital room door—
Only to freeze in shock.
Wasn’t he supposed to be gravely ill?
Then how could he have enough strength to press the school beauty against the hospital bed… and kiss her?