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Secret Love on Page 72

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Lin Xiaoman, a new editor at a publishing house, takes on the reprint revision of a slow-selling old novel. She discovers a mysterious annotation—“I’m waiting for someone” in钢笔—on Page 72 of every sample copy. Following the clue, she finds Gu Jingshen, the annotator and grandson of the novel’s author, who was also the “white-shirted senior” who secretly gave her hot cocoa in the library years ago. It turns out Gu has been using annotations to find the girl who read his grandma’s novel, while Lin’s 10-year “library crush” has long intertwined with Page 72’s secret. As they uncover the grandma’s unfinished ending, the mutual pining hidden between lines finally turns from “stolen romance” to unapologetic sweetness.

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