[A slow-burn healing story · Growth and acceptance · Childhood sweethearts · Mending a broken relationship · Redemption]
Clear-headed, steadfast ray of sunshine × sensitive, broken puppy
Lin Muxin has a secret: he’s a coward.
Afraid of being abandoned, he has always tried to be good. But his parents still didn’t want him. Neither of them did.
When he was eight, Jiang Fanlv found him.
She chased away the classmates who bullied him, walked to and from school with him, and spent every New Year by his side...
But in his first year of high school, he made a terrible mistake.
From then on, they became strangers.
“I don’t dare say it, because there are only two possible endings: together for life, or strangers forever.”
“Perhaps staying quietly by your side is the best ending for both you and me.”
Jiang Fanlv is an utterly ordinary person, yet everyone thinks she’s wonderful. Yu Shiqing says she’s pure; Ling Ziyu says she gave her the courage to fight back; Sang Zi says she helped keep the band together; and Lin Muxin... calls her name over and over in his nightmares.
“If only I’d realized sooner.”
Years later, she holds Lin Muxin and gently smooths away his scars.
This is a story about two trees, entwined with each other, growing lush and flourishing.
