Tracks of the Heart: My Uncle’s Secret

Lots of sweetness + a little groveling + forbidden age gap + healing and redemption + fated bonds

When the eighteen-year-old boy’s palm rested against her twenty-eight-year-old warmth, eight-year-old Jiang Ai gained armor to face the world.

Zhang Zhenyuan spent ten years weaving starlight for her, only to decisively withdraw when the girl began to understand love.

“My Xiao Ai conquered the whole world. How could she lose to me?”

The piano score torn apart on a stormy night held the girl’s secret feelings. He broke the rose he had raised and tended with his own hands, but in the fifth year after moving overseas, he realized that the person who had run away in fear back then was himself.

They reunited five years later. The girl he had once kept in a glasshouse had grown thorns. When he finally saw the fire that had burned in her eyes for ten years, the thirty-three-year-old man broke through every restraint beneath the moonlight.

“The person who taught you to defy fate was always meant to surrender to you with his own hands today.”

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-He was the first ray of light to reach into the abyss, and the judge who bound her in love’s chains with his own hands.

-She forged her forbidden love into a butterfly knife, yet could never bring herself to aim it at his heart.

-When ten years bridged their age gap like a magpie bridge, the long-awaited spring would finally melt every wall of ice built by reason.

[Reader Advisory]

★ Forbidden age-gap romance with a growing-up-together dynamic | Bittersweet pain interwoven with redemption

★ The rose he raised with his own hands will one day become his Aphrodite.

★ “I taught her to stand against the whole world, but she taught me how to surrender.”