short series

Ripples in the Rainy Spring Night

share time: 2025-12-08 06:03:09

Zhang Wan, a publishing editor, burns the midnight oil to revise the manuscript of "Lin Shen", a mysterious author. On a rainy night, she bumps into a broken-down car—its owner is a man in a soaked shirt, clutching her revision package, who says, "I'm Lin Shen". But Zhang Wan remembers "Lin Shen" as a middle-aged man from emails. Under the convenience store awning, Lin Shen reveals a decade-old secret: he was a bullied kid hiding in an alley, and Zhang Wan, in a white dress, gave him a rainbow umbrella, saying, "The rain will stop, and light will come". His book *Ripples* is all about the ten years he secretly watched her—from her college days eating bread in the library to her late nights editing at work. Yet Lin Shen has another unspoken reason for coming tonight: the bully from his past is now the "golden author" the publisher wants to sign, who plans to replace *Ripples* with a plagiarized manuscript...

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