Unrequited Love Is Forbidden
Gui Hong Luo Xue
Jiang Xiao had someone he secretly loved for ten years. Summoning his courage to confess, he was interrupted by a sudden car accident. He barely had time to shield the person beneath him—his unspoken love forever buried in the noise of death. Fu Qingzhou spent ten years in a wheelchair, a lifeless workaholic. Until a car crash, where his silent driver desperately pulled him into an embrace, planting a kiss amidst the blood. Under his stunned gaze, the man stopped breathing. Neglected details resurfaced one by one—after Jiang Xiao’s death, Fu Qingzhou fell in love with him. A doomed, unrequited longing, separated by life and death; he could never voice his love. —— Jiang Xiao opened his eyes—he was handing his dropout form to his homeroom teacher. Under the teacher’s disappointed gaze, Jiang Xiao snatched the form back and tore it to shreds. Reborn twenty years in the past, he was determined to confess to Fu Qingzhou. He’d heard that in high school, Fu Qingzhou was outstanding in both character and academics, a bright, cheerful sun. When Jiang Xiao found him, the "sun" was scowling darkly with a cigarette dangling from his lips, shoving his zero-score test paper into the mouth of someone beneath his feet. This sun… seemed a little off? —— In the decade after Jiang Xiao’s death, Fu Qingzhou went from grief to longing, until Jiang Xiao became an obsession he couldn't possess. Returning to high school, Fu Qingzhou went to confess to Jiang Xiao. He’d heard that Jiang Xiao’s high school life was tough, a solitary and silent little mushroom. When Fu Qingzhou found him, the "mushroom" was cheerfully counting money, rallying his rowdy friends for a night of indulgence. This mushroom… seemed a little off? —— Time rewound, and in their youth, their one-sided love became mutual. Dual Rebirth / Radiant vs. Brooding Jiang Xiao × Fu Qingzhou