[Serene, madly intense classical beauty × older, roguish owner of a bar on a drinking street]
A manic little madwoman with ironclad self-control × a bewitching bartender with an extraordinary ability to heal
Both leads have no prior sexual experience|Small-town story|Male lead falls in love at first sight|Five-year age gap|Push and pull|Redemption|Sweet and angsty romance
Xu Yanqing, owner of a bar on Chuansha’s drinking street, makes excellent cocktails and has a wild, captivating charm. He’s notorious for being shameless, carefree, and untouchable.
Tang Yu comes here to clear her mind, and happens to save someone along the way.
She hears he’s trouble.
Tang Yu thinks he seems pretty easy to handle.
He’s just a little hard to seduce.
Only later does she learn that Xu Yanqing is hard to win over in public, but clingy as hell in private.
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Tang Yu is beautiful, and in her blue qipao she looks every bit the graceful, charming beauty of Jiangnan. She makes excellent tea, and the teahouse she’s just opened causes a sensation in Chuansha Town.
When she’s happy, the young woman calls him “big brother.” When she’s angry, she calls him “uncle.” And when she loses her temper, her fists land hard, one after another.
Only Xu Yanqing knows she’s a fish on the verge of dying.
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One day, Xu Yanqing hears someone ask her, “You really don’t like him?”
Tang Yu smiles. “I just want his body and his face.”
The two part on bad terms.
Later, Xu Yanqing is so furious he pins the exhausted Tang Yu against the door and kisses her lingeringly. “Wasn’t it my body you wanted?”
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The man’s eyes redden with desperation. “Fine, let it just be my looks. That’s still better than you liking nothing about me.”
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On the soft couch in the teahouse, the young woman loops her arms around the man’s neck and murmurs passionately:
“Banished to a desolate place, my love, can you kiss me?”
His eyes roil with desire.
“Give yourself to me, and let spring begin.”
At four in the morning, the begonias are still awake, and so are we.
