[Age gap + growing-up romance] He is Pei Heyan, the powerful scion of Beicheng. With Buddhist prayer beads in hand, he is cool and abstinent, a ruthless king who commands the business world.
She is Qiao Yang, the rose he raised himself: his one exception and the treasured darling he pampers beyond measure, as everyone knows.
When she was eight, her family was destroyed, and he brought her to the Pei household. From then on, he raised her with loving care and indulged her every whim. She thought it was only natural that she would become Mrs. Pei someday, but when she turned eighteen, he pushed her away himself, offering a perfectly respectable excuse: “You're still young. You haven't seen the world.”
At twenty-one, she returns after seeing the world, no longer innocent, but calm and aloof. She is no longer the little girl who used to cling to him. Now she brings a storm with her, determined to reclaim everything that belongs to her.
Everyone thinks the runaway bird has finally returned to its nest. They don't know that her goal has always been clear: that man, and all his love.
At a bar, in front of his almost-fiancée, she wraps her arms around his neck and asks softly, “Pei Heyan, after seeing the world, I came back and realized that you're still the one I like best. What should I do?”
Outwardly, he remains unfazed, suppressing his surging emotions. Just as he did on that rainy night three years ago, he pulls her tightly into his arms and says in a hoarse voice:
“It's up to you.”
I ask you for money, love, companionship, everything, and you smile as you open your arms and offer me all of it.
