No One with Sense Dates an Older Woman

[Younger man/first love for both/entertainment industry/secretly in love]

Cen Tingzhi thinks of Shen Yi as a little brother.

Shen Yi has never once called Cen Tingzhi “Sis.”

*

Until his nineteenth birthday.

Cen Tingzhi celebrates with him and gives him a little cake she made herself.

That night, Shen Yi lifts her onto the bathroom counter.

His long arm curls around her slender, jade-white neck, and he removes the hair tie holding her hair back.

His beautiful lips brush her ear. His breath is warm and suggestive as he says, word by word, “Sis, the birthday present I want most is you.”

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It’s the first time Shen Yi has ever called her Sis.

The word makes the taut string in her head snap, leaving her with no reason at all.

*

There’s a saying in the capital’s circle of rich playboys: the young heiress-director of the Cen family is a wild rose, made for distant admiration, not for touching.

She’s covered in thorns, and one careless move is enough to leave you bleeding.

Shen Yi alone doesn’t believe it. He insists on provoking her.

*

At the 35th Golden Melody Awards ceremony,

the Best New Artist award goes to the top-tier star who has recently taken the industry by storm: Shen Yi.

Standing onstage, he smiles and makes a solemn announcement to the whole world

“Cen Tingzhi, I love you.”

“Sis, do you know? You’re my muse.”

∅

[Bonus Scene]

At first, when the subject of romance came up,

Cen Tingzhi told her best friend: “Dating a younger guy? Not even a dog would do it!!”

Later,

Cen Tingzhi: “Waaah, younger guys are irresistible!!!”

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"A single glance at their first meeting became the longing that filled every day and night that followed.

In this mortal world, she was the only rose that tempted him to fall."