[The Gentle Blade * Devoted and Obsessive * Surrenders for Love: Huo Yexi] x [Clear-Headed Beauty * Mild but Principled * Loses Control for Love: Jiang Yueyao]
Huo Yexi was the brother Jiang Yueyao called her own for twenty years.
His tenderness never asked whether she wanted it. He simply gave it as he pleased.
Jiang Yueyao never took it for granted.
But she still fell for him.
Later, he confessed his feelings, and she said yes.
But in the year she loved him most, he left the country without a word and deleted every way she had of contacting him.
No goodbye. No explanation.
As if he were discarding an old possession.
--
They met again at a family dinner hosted by their two families.
Jiang Yueyao looked at him and smiled politely, keeping her distance.
Later, Huo Yexi humbly begged her to get back together. After a long silence, she said only, "Come to my place this weekend."
He went.
She pinned him to the sofa and kissed him, forbidding him to move or hold her.
He thought she was taking revenge, and accepted it willingly.
But later, she couldn't even be bothered to torment him anymore.
After kissing him, she pushed him away coldly. "Huo Yexi, go."
"I hate you."
Not long after, she disappeared just as he had.
At last, he tasted everything she had endured back then: being abandoned, being erased, and not even daring to ask why.
--
When they met again, he waited downstairs every day, too afraid to approach her.
Until one day, he watched her walk out and spoke as gently as if soothing her, yet with all the humility of someone crawling in the dust: "Yaoyao, do you still want me?"
Reading guide:
Both are virgins, one-on-one romance, happy ending
The male lead is extremely obedient to the female lead
Sweet campus romance early on, angst-filled city romance later, then reconciliation
