The Cool Beauty in the Gloomy Painter's Arms Is Sweet and Alluring

[The gloomy, down-and-out painter Jiang Huai x the cool, clear-headed forensic pathologist Chi Wanyue]

[Secret crush / Both Each Other’s First / Healing / Sweet Romance]

Chi Wanyue fell for the older boy next door when she was fifteen. Back then, he seemed like a heavenly being, with an elegant, otherworldly air and breathtaking looks. His smiling, flirtatious eyes had countless girls swooning.

Chi Wanyue didn’t dare dream of being with him. The day she secretly kept one of Jiang Huai’s sheets of drawing paper, she wrote on the back, “Could you turn around and look at me, just once?”

When they met again, Chi Wanyue had become a forensic pathologist, while Jiang Huai sat alone on a windswept overpass, numb and cold as he sketched one portrait after another.

Jiang Huai had once stood at the top of the pyramid, but now he had fallen from grace. His paintings shouldn’t be worth only twenty yuan!

Chi Wanyue once again gave in to her feelings. She wanted to raise him back to the top herself.

Jiang Huai thought Chi Wanyue loved the once-arrogant, untouchable prodigy he had been. He never imagined she loved his brilliance and grace even more when all that remained was his shattered pride.

The day he drove Chi Wanyue away, the first snow fell unexpectedly in Jincheng. A soft knock came at the door. Standing there, dusted with snow, Chi Wanyue said sweetly, “Big Brother, the auntie by the street was selling fermented rice dumplings. You should eat them while they’re hot.”

At last, Jiang Huai turned around. Behind a life left in ruins, a young woman had once walked alone, unwaveringly making her way toward him. From then on, they were no longer alone.