A Hundred Rejections And One Yes

Synopsis

Stella Gomez was sure something was wrong with her. Even after being turned down over and over again, she still couldn't stop herself from drifting back to the boy she liked. Right now, rain was pouring down in sheets. She waited beneath the café awning by the high school gates, staring blankly across the street at the entrance of the university. Her phone screen glowed, displaying a chat from three days ago. Stella: [Zachary, I got my exam results. I improved a lot compared to last time.] Zachary: [Okay.] A cold, clipped reply. Not a single extra word. Still, Stella had taken a screenshot of that word and set it as her phone wallpaper. Every time her best friend, Cora Stone, saw her acting this helpless, she'd get mad. "Stella, wake up. He doesn't want to talk to you. Why are you acting like this means a lot?" Stella always shot back without a shred of doubt, "You don't get it. This is what devotion looks like. In novels, that's exactly how the heroine wins over the hero." Cora rolled her eyes. "Are you reading actual novels, or some kind of toxic garbage?" Stella blinked. "Is there a difference?" At least, she didn't think so. All she knew was that she had to win Zachary over.