(A friendly warning: this isn’t a sweet romance. The tags are just there to fill space.)
Until she turned twenty, Gu Wan always thought that setting aside her relationship with Xie Ciyuan, he was a pretty good person. After three years of openly loving him and five years of secretly pining for him, she finally overcame her own fears and went to see Xu Ciyuan, only to discover that he was no longer the boy she remembered. The childhood friend overcame the rival who appeared later, and overcame one obstacle after another, but by then, the girl who had grown up with him had already withered away with the passing years.
He fell for her at first sight, only for her to be a substitute for someone else.
He fell for her over time, only for their love to end in sorrow.
