Shen Yu's feelings for Wen Yi were long-term, hazy, and dull, unlike Wen Yi's for Mo Shichen, which began with a heart-stopping fascination, intense and stubborn.
Perhaps it was because they had known each other for too long and were too familiar with one another that their emotions were so intertwined that it was hard to identify which kind they belonged to, even hidden just beneath the surface, unperceived even by him.
When he learned by chance that Wen Yi liked Mo Shichen, he never considered that they could have any sort of ending together, any intersection at all, especially since Wen Yi never tried to approach or get to know Shichen.
He thought that it was just a lovely, dreamy fancy of her girlhood, not something real.
Which girl, in her teenage years, hasn't secretly liked or had a crush on those seemingly gilded, iconic male idols? They were merely symbols, a topic of conversation.
