#Age gap / powerful man lowering his head / romantic tension
Sang Xi has always kept a first love in her heart.
When she was fighting tooth and nail just to survive, Cruz Mendoza gave her the most tender care.
She couldn’t help falling in love with this stern man, but he refused to admit that he felt the same.
Then, just when she was falling hardest, he vanished without a trace.
When they meet again five years later, neither of them is anything like they used to be.
One has transformed from a shy college student into a chart-topping singer;
the other has changed from an abstinent professor into the powerful head of his family.
The little rabbit of the past has become a lion tamer.
Sang Xi smiled and said, “Mr. Mendoza, keep running away if you want. One day, you’ll be begging me to admit that you love me.”
At last, she saw this tall, stern man suffer and lose himself for her.
Only then did Sang Xi see the heavy chains weighing down this mighty-looking lion.
Cruz fell to his knees before her.
She slowly crouched and reached out to cradle his face.
“Professor Mendoza, I’ll help you break these chains.”
[Reader’s guide]
1. The male lead is Latino, with a fourteen-year age gap.
2. Calm, restrained family head × clever, devious, famous female singer.
3. The male lead has both panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which both fall on the anxiety spectrum.
4. The heroine is more love-struck at first, but later becomes a career-driven woman.
5. The heroine and his younger brother are not related by blood and have no officially registered relationship.
6. The younger brother is rather unhinged and has a secret crush on the heroine.
