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October 15, 2022
Really beautiful, I felt so deeply for Sha Yu and Chen Ruobing! I wish there was more and especially from Chen Ruobing's POV but still just stunning stuff.
July 1, 2025
Chen Ruobing and I is honestly such a beautiful novel. I enjoyed every second of this.
This novel is in the first person told by (and you don't actually learn the mc's name until chapter 5) Sha Yu. There's less dialogue in this novel. It's more detail, and it's more inner dialogue than anything. Sha Yu goes through what is it like basically falling in love with your best friend, respecting them so much that you don't want to ruin it, and the pain, work, and responsibility that comes with that.
Sha Yu is an open, silly, academically (slightly below) average girl when she is in high school. She enters a rebellious stage at some point, entertains herself with sports, struggles to figure out her identity through dating--to which she never says but it's clear she is a lesbian.
Chen Ruobing, our fl, is a very-well-above-average academically intelligent girl in high school, shooting at the top of the charts of the entire school. Since the story is in Sha Yu's POV, we don't get her direct thoughts, but how she treats Sha Yu, how she reacts, her expressions, it's clear she has feelings for her friend. (Bisexual queen mhm).
The novel is so nice because it feels so real. If someone told me this was based on a true story, I would 100% believe it. The emotions feel so real, the actions feel so real, the connections and relationships and scenarios. It really brought me back to being a kid during the high school arc (about half the novel, first ten~ chapters).
As they get older, their feelings get stronger. Sha Yu starts to think about love more and what she should do--every time circling back to Chen Ruobing.
The novel is a clean and easy read; it has a solid and beautiful translation. There were happy and devastating moments. And in the end, it all came together. Yes, it took them 16 years to figure out and be happy, but doesn't that feel most genuine? They cherished their friendship and didn't want to ruin it, they respected each other and each other's emotions and orientation (both assuming the other was straight lol).
I have a little hypothesis about Chen Ruobing's real name since Chen Ruobing seems to be a filler name: You catch it in one of the chapters when Sha Yu quotes herself directly. "Xiao-Bing!" she says. I think the translator might have misinterpreted this as a nickname. "Little Bing." but I actually think her real name was Xiao Bing or Xiao Ruobing, as Sha Yu explains when she works in America that she read a story where a character's surname was Chen, so she decided, in her story about their story, that she would change her surname to Chen.
There are so many things I can list off that hit you for being so realistic and relatable, but I'll leave that for you to experience if and when you decide to read.
This novel is in the first person told by (and you don't actually learn the mc's name until chapter 5) Sha Yu. There's less dialogue in this novel. It's more detail, and it's more inner dialogue than anything. Sha Yu goes through what is it like basically falling in love with your best friend, respecting them so much that you don't want to ruin it, and the pain, work, and responsibility that comes with that.
Sha Yu is an open, silly, academically (slightly below) average girl when she is in high school. She enters a rebellious stage at some point, entertains herself with sports, struggles to figure out her identity through dating--to which she never says but it's clear she is a lesbian.
Chen Ruobing, our fl, is a very-well-above-average academically intelligent girl in high school, shooting at the top of the charts of the entire school. Since the story is in Sha Yu's POV, we don't get her direct thoughts, but how she treats Sha Yu, how she reacts, her expressions, it's clear she has feelings for her friend. (Bisexual queen mhm).
The novel is so nice because it feels so real. If someone told me this was based on a true story, I would 100% believe it. The emotions feel so real, the actions feel so real, the connections and relationships and scenarios. It really brought me back to being a kid during the high school arc (about half the novel, first ten~ chapters).
As they get older, their feelings get stronger. Sha Yu starts to think about love more and what she should do--every time circling back to Chen Ruobing.
The novel is a clean and easy read; it has a solid and beautiful translation. There were happy and devastating moments. And in the end, it all came together. Yes, it took them 16 years to figure out and be happy, but doesn't that feel most genuine? They cherished their friendship and didn't want to ruin it, they respected each other and each other's emotions and orientation (both assuming the other was straight lol).
I have a little hypothesis about Chen Ruobing's real name since Chen Ruobing seems to be a filler name: You catch it in one of the chapters when Sha Yu quotes herself directly. "Xiao-Bing!" she says. I think the translator might have misinterpreted this as a nickname. "Little Bing." but I actually think her real name was Xiao Bing or Xiao Ruobing, as Sha Yu explains when she works in America that she read a story where a character's surname was Chen, so she decided, in her story about their story, that she would change her surname to Chen.
There are so many things I can list off that hit you for being so realistic and relatable, but I'll leave that for you to experience if and when you decide to read.
May 16, 2022
اهخخ كان جميل و مؤثر 😣😣😣
June 28, 2024
That one sapphic situationship that will destroy your entire being and change the trajectory of your life
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