Kim Dong-hyung had a little secret in his heart. In the seventeenth year of his life, he had a crush on the class belle next door.

That's right,

A crush.

For the first time, he was extremely sure,

He could use this word to describe his feelings.

Because of his face that had inherited his parents' good genes and his honest and amiable personality,

Kim Dong-hyung had been very popular since he was young, and he always had a large group of friends around him.

He could joke around with his friends, but he couldn't easily say anything flirtatious in front of a girl who made his heart beat faster.

So his liking for her..,

Became a crush.

Kim Dong-hyung did not know that there was a saying, "Love does not know where it begins, but it goes deep.",

He just felt that the feeling of liking someone was very strange,

It seemed to be deepening bit by bit, step by step, but in retrospect, it seemed to be logical and natural.

His first impression of Han Ruila..,

Was on the day of the art exam.

He came out of the examination room with his saxophone on his back,

When he passed by an examination room, he heard the sound of a piano coming from inside. He turned his head and looked in.

Through the protective railing of the window,

His gaze fell unerringly on the girl sitting by the piano, focused on playing.

She was wearing a simple and elegant dress,

The hem was light gray.

Her figure was thin, and the ponytail tied behind her head hung down,

It was a stark contrast to the fair skin behind her neck.

From Kim Dong-hyung's point of view, he could only see a small part of her face,

The lines of her fair and smooth side profile,

And her tightly pursed red lips.

Her slender fingers danced, sprinkling a string of lively notes.

Kim Dong-hyung was inexplicably mesmerized.

His mind was empty, and he had no thoughts. He just couldn't help but be attracted to her.

In the inner room, the art exam teacher called for a stop,

Han Ruila stood up from her chair,

Kim Dong-hyung came back to his senses.

Even if his thinking was a little off line,

Subconsciously, he knew that it was impolite to stare at a strange girl like that, so he took a deep look at her and left.

When he got home, he immediately forgot about the art exam.

But that fleeting glimpse of her still remained in his memory. When Kim Dong-hyung saw Han Ruila again, he immediately recognized her as the girl who played the piano that day.

She didn't expect that he would be admitted to the same high school as her, and even be in the same department.

Kim Dong-hyung inexplicably felt a sense of closeness to her, and a trace of joy that he did not even notice sprouted in his heart.

Because of the self-confidence he had accumulated since he was young, he had always been straightforward and took the initiative to make friends.

Logically speaking, it should be very easy for him to get to know a girl from another class and even become friends with her, but this time the situation seemed to be slightly different.

He obviously had many opportunities to strike up a conversation with her, but for some reason, he always let the opportunities slip away.

Kim Dong-hyung could not help but feel a little frustrated.

He wiped his face and told himself that there was nothing to be afraid of, but this self-suggestion made him even more nervous when he saw Han Ruila again.

Kim Dong-hyung was so irritated that he wanted to scratch the wall.

He did not know that while he was secretly paying attention to Han Ruila, Han Ruila was also silently paying attention to him.

Sometimes, once a person had a certain thought, they would become more and more attentive to it.

Not being able to talk to her had become a sore point for Kim Dong-hyung!

It caused him to be absent-minded in class, uninterested in training, and bored of playing games. He even felt a little impatient when he saw his girlfriend, Jiang Hye-min.

He did not know about these abnormalities as he was immersed in his own sadness.

He had always been successful in his social circle, but now he was facing a girl who looked like a ball of cotton and was very gentle and shy. It was as if his strength was sealed and could not be used.

Sullen!

So sullen!!

However, just as he was feeling down, a boy in the front row turned his head and quietly asked him to borrow money.

Money!

Everyone on earth knew that he was extremely poor, but he still asked him to borrow money again and again?!

Did he return the money he borrowed last time?

Who gave him the face to come and borrow money again?!

He wanted to pretend that he did not hear him, but he did not expect that boy to really pretend that he did not hear him and kept calling him.

Kim Dong-hyung was so annoyed by the noise that he casually crumpled a piece of paper and threw it at him. Who knew that he would accidentally use too much force and the paper ball hit the table and lightly bounced up and hit the English teacher on the forehead.

The classroom burst into laughter. The smart and bald English teacher slowly raised his head, two rays of white light reflecting off his cold glasses.

"Kim Dong-hyung, do you have any dissatisfaction with my class?"

"…" Kim Dong-hyung slowly revealed an awkward but polite smile.

Then, he stood outside the classroom for the entire class.

"…"

After being punished, his mind calmed down a lot.

Suddenly, he was not in a rush and did not have that heart-wrenching sense of urgency. Even when he saw Han Ruila, he just calmly looked away.

At the end of the day, he still had a sense of pride in his heart.

Even if he did not do anything in reality, the thoughts that he had in private made him feel very unbalanced.

He even felt a little unhappy and resentful towards someone.

However, Kim Dong-hyung's mind was detached, and he did not realize that he was sulking at someone.

A person's rationality may not necessarily be able to recognize the complexity of emotions. For example, Kim Dong-hyung's sulky mentality of "I've been paying attention to you for so long, but you didn't notice me at all", although it did not make sense, it was still there.

Kim Dong-hyung, who had made up his mind to deliberately ignore her, just when he thought that he was about to forget, he really met Han Ruila's eyes for the first time.

He never expected that she would see the scene of him being dumped by Jiang Hye-min.

In fact, Kim Dong-hyung was a little shocked and flustered at that time.

He did not know why he felt embarrassed and guilty, as if he had been caught in a relationship at a young age by his parents.

But after a moment of panic, he calmed down again, and the idea of talking to Han Ruila was revived. The word "opportunity" appeared in his mind, but he suddenly noticed the complicated expression on Han Ruila's face.

Oh no … Did she think that he was a male chauvinist who was not considerate of girls at all?

Kim Dong-hyung's heart sank, and he really could not deal with the situation in front of him.

The two of them did not know each other, and he could not explain anything.

So he could only stiffly turn around and awkwardly escape there.

This feeling was even more stifling than Jiang Hye-min's words — the feeling of heartbreak.

Kim Dong-hyung ran with his broken glass heart, desperately thinking that it would be impossible for him to become close to Han Ruila in the future.

After struggling for an entire night, he finally convinced himself to let it go, but as soon as he arrived at school, the evil thoughts in his heart surfaced again.

Especially when his relative told him that the prettiest girl in the third class was looking at him.

Although she might not be looking at him for anything good, she had finally noticed him, right?

The strange feeling in his heart kept pulling him to look in Han Ruila's direction, so he could not help but look again.

He did not expect to meet her gaze, and in addition to being shocked, his whole body felt numb as if it had been electrocuted.

Kim Dong-hyung's heart pounded, and a strange joy was transmitted to every nerve in his body.

Unfortunately, before he could be happy for long, Han Ruila entered the classroom with the girls in the same class. Kim Dong-hyung's mood suddenly dropped when he did not see her.

When he went back, he would ask Team's erudite Brother Yanqi what was wrong with wanting to look at other people.

Min Yanqi stared at him for a long time, and in the end, he shook his head helplessly.

Every time he tried to guess Kim Dong-hyung's thoughts with a normal person's mind, he always failed.

He could only tell him, "Don't stop taking the medicine!"

Kim Dong-hyung: "…"

When they were in PE class together, he knew that Han Ruila was sitting at the edge of the basketball court, and the hand holding the racket was inexplicably sweaty.

He did not know if it was because he was distracted, but for some reason, the ball he shot actually hit Han Ruila's head.

After the shock, he was first happy, and then he was worried.

He was happy because he was connected to Han Ruila, and worried because this was not a good start …

As expected, he was unlucky the next second.

He was thrown to the ground by a girl, and as a boy, he lost all his face.

However, what surprised Kim Dong-hyung was that Han Ruila seemed to be worried about him.

Did this mean that she did not hate him?

He did not leave a bad impression in her heart?

Well, based on this understanding, Kim Dong-hyung was not angry even though he lost all his face.

When he accidentally saw Han Ruila's gentle side at the entrance of the tunnel, Kim Dong-hyung's heart suddenly itched.

The previous concerns and psychological imbalance were suddenly thrown out of the window, and the desire to get close to Han Ruila became unprecedentedly strong.

From that day on, he began to frequently go to the third class. When he was in the class, he suddenly realized — That's right!

He could not find a chance to talk to Han Ruila, so couldn't he start with her classmates?

Once he became familiar with the entire class, he would be able to get close to Han Ruila.

Befriending the entire class in order to get to know one person was not a clever strategy, but it was surprisingly suitable for Kim Dong-hyung.

He did not fail, and without anyone noticing, he quietly stuck to Han Ruila.

Because he was warm to everyone, his attitude toward Han Ruila did not arouse the suspicion of others.

Only he knew in his heart how much happiness he gained every time he looked at Han Ruila and had a short conversation with her.

But he felt more and more that he was becoming greedier in this kind of interaction.

He was not satisfied with Han Ruila's gaze, and he also wanted her care, her different attitude toward other people.

He thought that she could only look at him, only talk to him, and only smile at him.

The crazily growing possessiveness accompanied by the gradually clear liking, Kim Dong-hyung slowly but strongly realized that he was moved by Han Ruila.

It seemed that from the beginning, he was attracted to her, and as long as he stayed by her side, he could not help but have a good impression of her and want to get close to her.

Liking her seemed to be something that could not be resisted.

Kim Dong-hyung shyly and foolishly thought that this kind of feeling could be called "love at first sight".

After realizing that he liked Han Ruila, Kim Dong-hyung began to care very much about Han Ruila's opinion of him.

The distressing thing was that he did not dare to directly ask, so he could only dig up some information from time to time and make random guesses.

He did not dare to directly express his feelings for Han Ruila, but he also vaguely hoped that Han Ruila could see something.

Before confirming the other party's feelings, the one who had a crush would always be testing.

Kim Dong-hyung was the same.

He deliberately praised her beauty, played with other girls in front of her, and even talked about his ideal type. He frequently talked to her and made her happy in all kinds of ways. Then Kim Dong-hyung confidently believed that Han Ruila must have seen his feelings for her.

Since she saw it, then he did not have to deliberately hide it.