#Male unrequited love + older woman/younger man romance + a long-laid plan + reunion after years apart
Sun Yanghe lives at her best friend's place for convenience while doing her internship. But when her friend is suddenly sent away on a temporary assignment, only her younger brother is left at home.
She plays the role of “big sister” flawlessly.
But she never notices the slight tremble in the boy's fingers when he hands her milk, or the way his gaze keeps straying toward her as she writes her internship reports, even as he pretends to read.
Until one day, while helping him put away his clothes, she accidentally knocks a diary to the floor.
On its yellowed pages, her name appears again and again.
“Yanghe made pork ribs today. When she smiled, it felt like sunshine fell right into my hands.”
“She only thinks of me as her little brother, but I want to hold her hand. I want her eyes to see more than just kindness when she looks at me.”
“What gives that man the right to take her home? What gives him the right to call himself her suitor?”
“...”
The boy had hidden his feelings for her throughout his entire youth, filling page after page with her name.
She was stunned. A sound came from behind her, and when she turned around, the boy stood there wrapped in nothing but a bath towel, looking at her with tearful eyes and utter despair...
Thinking he had simply lost his head for a moment, she left her friend's home the next day to give him time to calm down. She never saw him again.
After six years studying abroad, she returns to En City, wanting only to catch up with her best friend.
But the first person she runs into is him.
She keeps retreating until the man, no longer the boy he once was, pins her against the wall. His eyes red and tears streaming, he asks, “...Could you please stop leaving me? I can be just your little brother.”
