Running Into Your Heart 撞见你的心 by Tian Cu Yu 甜醋鱼

To everyone else, Lu Zhou is the cold, untouchable school heartthrob — proud, elite, and unreachable, a star shining high above.

But Shen Yihuan knows the truth:

His love is intense — so intense it makes you want to run.

To Lu Zhou, Shen Yihuan wasn’t just someone special in a sea of people.

She was an accident sent by the world —

a downpour,

a blaze,

a force that turned his world upside down.

In the military, everyone knows that Captain Lu has an unusually bold tattoo on his back —

A cherry blossom vine, vivid and striking like a painting, inked with the richest hues.

One day, a female doctor on aid duty shyly asks him:

“Is that tattoo in memory of someone special?”

Lu Zhou replies flatly, extinguishing his cigarette:

“No.”

But his diary says otherwise:

My love is heavy, selfish, dark, and hopeless — and yet, I love you.

I want to lock you away in a place without light.

I want to dig out every part of your heart that ever belonged to anyone else.

I want to entangle, devour, and possess you again and again — hear your sobs, see your fear, your surrender.

— Lu Zhou’s Diary 2

When Shen Yihuan grew up, she never forgot their military training at 16 — the scorching sun, the ice-cold watermelon, and that pure-looking boy.

Everyone said Lu Zhou was aloof, distant, self-restrained — no one had ever seen him smile at a girl.

Later, people heard that the famously popular Shen Yihuan was chasing him —

But Lu Zhou always seemed indifferent.

Only Shen Yihuan knew what really happened.

That night, during self-study, when the school lost power and everyone cheered to go home —

She was dragged into a dark hallway.

Lu Zhou cornered her, breath ragged, unable to restrain himself — and kissed her.