In the library after school, he peeled off the ma…

Su Niansheng was the most unnoticeable girl in the class—quiet, timid, always hugging a book to her chest. Ji Huaian was everyone’s light: top of the class, gentle and refined, his smile like a March breeze. No one knew the way he looked at her had long since twisted into something else, like a hunter eyeing a defenseless fawn caught in a trap. He was simply waiting. Waiting for a dusk when everyone else had gone, waiting for that lock to click shut, sealing her entirely within his own territory.