Status Updates From This Time It's Real

MORE HENRY LI MENTIONED!!

“Maybe there is some small, weak part of me that wants to be wanted, to hold hands with someone beautiful in the blue-dark, to breathe and hear its echo, to walk through the alleys of Beijing with another shadow falling naturally beside mine.” (ch. 23)

“Liar.”
AHAHAHA 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

‘[…] and I'm not sure how to explain it to him, why I'd much rather show my work to random people on the internet than people who know me in real life, […]’

real i fear i cannot show my writing to people irl

"im not going anywhere. I promise." what if I cry 😔

OMG SYS MENTIONED!! HENRY LI MENTIONED!! I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE RELATED TO IF YOU COULD SEE THE SUN

THESE COMMENTS AND USERBAMES ARE SO REALISTIC ANN LIANG DID HER RESEARCH

I know this is a rom-com so this has to end happily. I will not be tricked🧐

This is making me anxious 🫠

‘Words just move me. A beautiful sentence will sneak under my skin and crack me open the way a phrase of music might, or a climactic scene from a movie. A well-crafted story can make me laugh and gasp for breath and weep.’

Sometimes I think loneliness is my default setting.’