I Cured My Fear of Being Touched

An unconventional Marriage Before Love. “It’s a heartbeat that won’t settle, a love that can’t be replaced, an instinctive closeness and a preference for one another.” “You’re the cure I’ve finally found.” The first time Zhou Lie saw his older brother’s fiancée, he could tell this future sister-in-law was no ordinary well-behaved girl. She was bright and beautiful, with exceptional talent. For the first time in his life, he felt jealous of his own brother. After ten years away, Chu Ran returned to Pingjing for the betrothal arranged when she was a child. She had a severe and unusual condition: a fear of being touched. Contact with anyone could make her heart race and leave her gasping for breath, sometimes even causing her to faint. Yet when her future brother-in-law touched her, all her physical and emotional discomfort vanished. “You’re betrothed to the Zhou family. Why can’t I be the one to marry you?” After the broken engagement stirred up a scandal, the Zhou and Chu families went ahead with the marriage to save face, but the groom had changed. The story moves between the distant, romantic, classical city of Rome and fast-developing Pingjing, where tradition collides with modernity. Across time zones and mountains and seas, a world-class violinist and a dashing, roguish playboy comfort one another and heal their wounds. As they uncover secrets buried for more than twenty years, Zhou Lie takes Chu Ran’s hand and walks with her across the ravines of time, healing old scars that once seemed impossible to touch or mend. Their journey is full of love, laughter, tears, and joy. For a long, long time, with no end in sight, I hoped we’d never, ever part. Winter is bitter, yet the years are gentle. Then suddenly spring arrives, and all things find their voice. It seems it’s all because of you. From now on, through every landscape and memory, through bitter winter and bright dawn, you’ll have me. A cool and distant heroine, cold on the outside and warm within, gifted and strong-willed x a roguish playboy who seems unserious but is actually incredibly dependable, a loyal wolf-dog hero. Both leads are virgins.