A Fine Spring Breeze

A sweet romance [10-year age gap + mutual secret crush + everyone playing matchmaker + heroine's career growth + mature, steady, guiding male lead]

Cheng Shuchun first met Xu Yifeng at a parent-teacher meeting in her senior year of high school. She was drawn to the handsome, refined young man at first sight.

Before the meeting was over, while the teacher was still passionately announcing the midterm exam results from the podium, she tugged lightly at the sleeve of her best friend Xu Yishu and whispered, “Hey, your brother really stands out among all those middle-aged men. He's young and handsome, too!”

“My brother's still single. Make an effort and you could be my sister-in-law someday!”

That year, Cheng Shuchun was eighteen, and Xu Yifeng was twenty-eight.

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They met for the second time during the summer break of her sophomore year in college. Xu Yishu invited Cheng Shuchun to visit her new home, mainly because she wanted to set her friend up with her brother.

As it happened, Xu Yifeng had just returned from a business trip abroad that day, so Xu Yishu asked him to pick Cheng Shuchun up from the high-speed rail station.

Cheng Shuchun sat in the back seat, too nervous to even breathe deeply. It was her first time sitting so close to an unfamiliar man in a car, and he was so devastatingly handsome she couldn't take her eyes off him. The air around her seemed to grow thin.

All she could do was sneak glances to see what he was doing.

They exchanged no more than three sentences the entire ride.

That year, Cheng Shuchun was twenty, and Xu Yifeng was thirty.

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They met for the third time at Xu Yifeng's company, where Cheng Shuchun had come for an interview.

Xu Yifeng told her, “Tinglan has high standards, but that doesn't mean Xu Yishu's friend needs to pull strings to get in. Since you're here, do your best.”

That year, Cheng Shuchun was twenty-three, and Xu Yifeng was thirty-three.