A Tender Gaze

【Bright, lively cat café owner vs. gentle, scheming ophthalmologist】 【Devoted to each other, sweet 1v1 romance, reunion after years apart, six-year age gap, childhood sweethearts】 Love came out of nowhere, then a bucket of cold water came crashing down. Jiang Baili fell in love at first sight with the doctor treating her: tall and handsome, with a refined, gentle, mature air. A gentleman like jade, warm and polished. Wasn’t he exactly her type? Then she glanced down at the name on his badge, and her eyes nearly popped out of her head. She wished she could disappear on the spot. All the romantic feelings vanished in an instant. Exhausted in body and mind, Jiang Baili returned home, only for her mother to spring another trap on her. That was when she learned her mother hadn’t booked her an appointment with a specialist at all. This was a blind date her mother had been planning all along! All Jiang Baili wanted in life was to be a cat person and serve her feline overlord, but Dr. Lu kept chasing her down, demanding that she “pay off her debt with herself.” She’d have to offer up the “self” she was now to repay the “debt” she’d incurred when she was young and foolish. … Love is an unpredictable twist of fate, catching you completely off guard. Lu Chengyan had just returned to Jiangzhou when Ms. Yan put him through the wringer and set him up on a blind date. He spotted Jiang Baili’s name on his list of scheduled patients. He looked up, and there she was in person. The mischievous little monkey in his memories had grown into a graceful, sweet young woman. True to her name, her skin was fair and luminous, and her smile was sweeter than a pear, as if it could drip with juice. She was also like a little white fox, adorable and lively, with a way of tugging at his heartstrings. But she’d grown timid. The moment she saw him, she trembled with nerves. One day, Lu Chengyan lowered his eyes and laughed softly, his gaze tender as he leaned close and murmured, “Lili, you’re worried about me.” Later, He pinned her beneath the wisteria trellis and teased her gently, “Lili, so you wanted to be my little wife from way back then?” The truth was, he wanted to be her husband.