Running away from the Love-Brain

Synopsis+Explanation

T.N: This novel has been brought to you thanks to the patronage of  Sirenz, one of the library members, in a process of testing paid translations on demand. Thanks for the support! The novel has 6 extra chapters, but as far as I've searched they are impossible to get. I'll keep looking.

Cui Xijin is a germaphobic, sickly person. If she doesn't chew her food slowly and thoroughly, she'll throw up. If someone coughs near her, she'll silently move two meters away. She carries perfectly folded alcohol wipes in her bag to disinfect her phone at any moment, and her wardrobe is filled with rows of white shirts.

Chi Buyu is a cute, bratty little troublemaker. She only eats shrimp if someone else peels it for her, she has a soft voice, sweet mouth, and suffers from skin hunger. When she gets drunk, she'll climb onto people's laps with her nose blushing red. Her wardrobe is full of sexy little camisoles and custom cheongsams.

Rumor has it that these two don't get along.

Chi Buyu can't stand how Cui Xijin always looks cold and aloof, saying her pale face looks like she could cough up blood at any moment, like a gloomy ghost.
Cui Xijin can't stand how Chi Buyu always smiles so brightly, saying there's nothing but water in her brain, like a total airhead.

Until one day, after a class reunion...
Cui Xijin woke up from a nightmare about "kissing Chi Buyu," gasping for breath, only to find her white shirt from last night covered in Chi Buyu's lipstick marks, and Chi Buyu's little camisole neatly draped over her face.

Half-asleep, Chi Buyu mumbled,
"You said you'd love me for a hundred centuries. You can't lie to me."

Later on...

Before Cui Xijin irons her own white shirts every day, she also has to iron Chi Buyu's row of custom cheongsams.

Chi Buyu stuffs alcohol wipes and Polaroid selfies covered in little hearts into Cui Xijin's bag, tearfully asking, "Will you still love me after you come back from your business trip?"

At the next class reunion, a drunk Chi Buyu clung to Cui Xijin like a koala all night, mumbling, "You have to love me for a hundred centuries every day!"

An old classmate sighed, "Didn't they used to fight like cats and dogs whenever they met?"

"Who said that? Didn't you know that back in first year, they performed 'Troublemaker' together at the school's opening ceremony? And when Chi Buyu injured herself in third year, it was Cui Xijin who organized her notes for her. During military training, when Cui Xijin fainted, it was Chi Buyu who was the first to rush over and send her to the hospital. Every time Cui Xijin got sick, Chi Buyu noticed even before she coughed..."

"Even if you didn't know all that, you must know they were in the same class in high school, went to the same university, and now their studios are on the same street?"

The person who asked was stunned—were they really "not getting along"?

Turns out, a hundred centuries is so short.
Turns out, they can love each other a hundred centuries every day.