[Two Male Leads + Childhood Friends to Lovers + Secret Guard + Reconciliation After a Breakup + HE]
When Lin Yu was six, he picked up a little book boy named Su Li.
So obedient and gentle, and no matter how much Lin Yu bullied him, he never cried.
Lin Yu thought he'd stay by his side forever.
Until one day, Su Li was caught sneaking over the wall in the middle of the night to practice martial arts.
Lin Yu asked him, "Are you going to leave someday?"
Su Li shook his head. "I won't. I'll stay with Your Highness."
Lin Yu believed him.
But three years later, Su Li left anyway. All he left behind was a letter: "Your Highness, I'll come back once I've grown stronger."
Lin Yu waited five years.
Five years later, a black-clad secret guard knelt before him. "I am here under orders to protect the Seventh Prince."
Lin Yu's eyes reddened as he sneered. "Who are you? Does this prince need your protection?"
That night, the secret guard climbed through his window again, a pillow in his arms. Standing by the bed, he called softly, "Lin Yu."
Lin Yu pulled the covers over his head. "...Go sleep at the foot of the bed."
--- Later, Lin Yu learned that the unremarkable wooden hairpin Su Li wore concealed a great clan's blood feud, and that his "scheming, tea-green" secret guard had long since entrusted his life to him.
"A river doesn't compete to be first. It competes to flow on and on," Su Li said. "Your Highness, sooner or later, this river of mine will flow back to you."
Lin Yu smacked him on the back of the head. "What river? You're my well. Don't even think about going anywhere."
Tags: Two Male Leads | Childhood Friends | Secret Guard Bottom | Tsundere Top | Growing Up Together |
