Scorching Passion

[Gentle, resilient romance novelist × rough-and-tumble boxing gym owner] [Both inexperienced in love + one-on-one happy ending + eight-year age gap + sizzling chemistry + devoted, fatherly boyfriend + mutual healing and growth + height and build difference] The summer Cheng Xiao lost her last close family member, she met Qi Zhao. The owner of the boxing gym across the street cursed and threw his weight around. Fierce and cold, the hulking man terrified her. But she never expected him to save her, then coax and trick her into coming home with him. * That summer, Qi Zhao finally got his wish and plucked the flower he’d fallen for at first sight. From then on, the people around him discovered that the boxing gym owner, once so violent, untamable, and shamelessly roguish, could also be patient and gentle. That side of him, however, belonged to just one person. Later, the boxing gym in Qingcheng called [Xiaotu] changed one character in its name, becoming [Xiaotu]. Someone asked Qi Zhao why he’d changed a perfectly good name, and said it wasn’t as imposing as before. Qi Zhao merely curved his lips in a calm smile, tenderness lingering in his eyes. “Because I hope my girl will be brave and fearless, with a smooth road ahead.” * After meeting Qi Zhao, the people in Cheng Xiao’s stories all began to resemble him: wild and wicked, yet tender to the bone. He helped her climb a high tower, then tucked her away in his heart. Later, their story took the country by storm, and people finally learned that the [Xiao] in [Xiaotu] was the Xiao in Cheng Xiao’s name. Loving someone is like tending a flower. I love you, so I want to see you full of life and shining with confidence., Qi Zhao You are the morning star, a plague, a weed that dies and rises again, and also the brilliant sun of my golden age., Cheng Xiao