Rose of the Wasteland

[A refined rich heir + a brilliant young researcher + an arrogant, cold, and ill male lead + an ordinary, stubborn, and quirky female lead + he pursues, she retreats + older man/younger woman + growing together + healing romance]

(Rich heir male lead × graduate student female lead)

He was like a barren wasteland, where nothing could grow.

Yet she became the only rose in that wasteland.

…

At thirty, Shao Muyuan was barely alive. He had no hope and nothing to look forward to, only day after day of work to numb himself.

“I may not have long to live,” he said.

But one day, he saw a girl who seemed to glow. The breeze stirred her dark hair in the sunshine, and the book in her hands seemed like a holy scripture, captivating his soul.

For the first time, he had something to look forward to. Hope appeared in his life.

“I suddenly don’t want to die anymore,” he said.

…

In other people’s eyes, Lin Yu was a good student and a well-behaved girl. She lacked confidence, was timid and meek, and had an ostrich-like tendency to hide from trouble. She only wanted to live out a peaceful, uneventful life.

But when she was twenty-two, everything changed.

The change taught her to be brave and showed her a world she had never seen before, a garden filled with roses.

“All the roses here are you,” he said.

For the first time, Lin Yu realized that someone could love her so much, so much that no one else would do.

“Loving you was fate,” he said.

From this day forward, she wanted only to walk through life hand in hand with him…