And then he kissed her.
Dao Ming Feng’s smile was the scariest thing Shancai had ever seen. It didn’t reach her eyes. “Then you’ve just declared war, little vegetable. And I have never lost.” That night, the storm came.
That evening, she heard a sound she’d never heard in the Meteor Garden before: a cello. meteor garden -2001-
“She called me,” he said without turning around. “My mother. She said some girl from school came to her office. Some wild vegetable with no sense of self-preservation.” He finally turned. His face was wet—rain or tears, she couldn’t tell. “Why did you do it, Shancai?”
She didn’t mean to make a sound. But a piece of the rusted gate she’d been leaning on gave way with a screech. And then he kissed her
It was the first time he’d used her real name.
She ran.
“You followed me,” he said, but it wasn’t an accusation. It was a question.
It was Shancai’s secret kingdom. No one else ever came here. The ghosts, she figured, were better company than her classmates. “Then you’ve just declared war, little vegetable