Spring’s Last Embers Lock the Begonia Away

[Second Chances After a Breakup + Mad Obsession and Imprisonment + Male-Male Romance + Captivity]

He thought the spring light had burned away, never knowing it was the flower's farewell, as the crabapple blossoms had withered early to protect him.

Three years ago, Shen Tang said, “Your skills are so bad they make me want to throw up,” reducing the proud and ruthless Huo Yuchuan to nothing before vanishing without a trace.

When they meet again, Shen Tang is knocked unconscious and taken to a villa halfway up the mountain. Their overlapping shadows appear in the floor-to-ceiling windows

Huo Yuchuan kisses him with a cold laugh and murmurs into his ear, “Go ahead and laugh. Just don't cry later.”

Later, the truth comes to light: it wasn't rejection back then, but a terminal illness. He couldn't bear to make Huo Yuchuan stand vigil at his grave.

Huo Yuchuan holds the bowl of medicine, his eyes bloodshot. “Shen Tang, even if you die, you'll die in my arms.”

He accompanies him to death, and then through rebirth.

The ashes of spring flare to life again, and the crabapple blossoms bloom once more;