When You Say You Want to Take Care of Me

Name: When You Say You Want to Take Care of Me
Author: Nan Huai An Meng

当你说要养我

by Nan Huai An Meng (南槐桉梦)

Status: Completed
Length: 388k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Youth Sweet Romance
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Xu An is eighteen and so poor she doesn't even own a decent coat. She's used to being abandoned: her father drinks, her mother ran away, and her ex-boyfriends only wanted her youthful looks and her body. Then she meets Cheng Yu, a thirty-two-year-old business elite who is impossibly gentle. He waits outside the convenience store where she works until the early hours, remembers every book she casually mentions, and stays up all night looking after her when she has a fever. At last, she believes love can be warm. But the Cheng family needs a marriage alliance between equals. He leaves her a bank card, an apartment in a good school district, and a recommendation letter for studying abroad, saying this is "fairer" to her. Xu An burns every check in front of him. Firelight reflects in her reddened eyes as she says, "You might as well just say my love is only worth money to you." Later, Cheng Yu runs into Xu An at a business reception. She's wearing the cashmere coat she couldn't afford back then, and has become a well-known author. Someone introduces them, and she smiles as she offers her hand. "Mr. Cheng, it's an honor to meet you." That night, he digs out his old phone and finds the last text she sent him: "Cheng Yu, you said hot drinks from the convenience store were the warmest thing in winter. But it turns out it wasn't the drink that was warm. It was you, back then, willing to warm my hands."

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