Asleep in the Light-Years

GL, redemption, realistic, angsty romance, personal growth

Seventeen-year-old Xu Mian is struggling with depression when, in the virtual game Sky: Children of the Light, she meets a guardian: twenty-two-year-old Cheng Yuxia.

At first, Cheng Yuxia casually takes her along to explore, jokes around with her, and occasionally teases, “Kid, why don’t you call me big sis?” But to Xu Mian, that gentle voice coming through the screen becomes the only light in her dark world. She grows pathologically dependent on Cheng Yuxia, until one day she finally loses control and confesses her feelings, only to be rejected: “Mianmian, I only think of you as a little sister.” Shattered, Xu Mian disappears completely: she deletes the game, blocks Cheng Yuxia, and hurts herself, as if she had never existed. Five years later, they meet again in the real world.

Cheng Yuxia is now her client, and Xu Mian...

At last, Cheng Yuxia understands the love of the “kid” she once knew. Is there still time for her to make things right?

After they begin to make amends, a conspiracy quietly takes shape. Can they find new life in its shadow?

“We sank into our own abysses, even our embraces full of thorns.”

But this time, perhaps they can surface together.