Longing for the North, Holding the South

Name: Longing for the North, Holding the South
Author: Jian Xing

恋北怀南

by Jian Xing (见幸)

Status: Completed
Length: 200k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Workplace & Marriage
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[Destined love + younger man + she’s not his first, he’s never been with anyone + devoted to each other]

[Objective, levelheaded designer vs. steady, struggling college student]

[Three times the age gap] [No unexpected twists] [Genuine diagnosis]

Note: [Bad ending] [Not written for fans of the male lead] [A fleeting romance]

That young man was just like her when she was young.

Stubborn and determined, convinced that youth meant following your heart.

It all began with an unintentional gesture on a snowy day.

She drove a young man back to his dorm.

He was young but composed, so much like she had been in the past.

One ride each way, two meals, and a thousand casual words.

The story should have ended there.

But the young man came looking for her. He was spirited, earnest, and pure.

He loved orchids, and was as pure as one.

She once asked him, “Can you stop messing around?”

The young man replied calmly, “I know what I’m doing.”

Entanglement, push and pull, retreat, advance, compromise.

The moon waxes and wanes, and people know joy and sorrow, partings and reunions.

On the fifteenth night, the moon is full and bright.

He got what he wanted. Their love finally reached its happy ending. He swallowed hard.

“I love you.”

She remained calm and simply said, “I know.”

They were both crying. Why were they crying?

Why shed tears over something good?

Perhaps because even after getting what he wanted, their story was destined to end in tragedy.

He gained so much, but lost the one thing that mattered most: her.

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