[One-on-one romance, both leads’ first and only love, slow-paced everyday life, first love at school, wealthy-family mistress, intense push and pull, rekindled romance]
When they were young,
she was his “unexpected surprise” and his “unwilling regret.”
Luo Chen’s world had always been lively and smooth sailing, until he met Xu Nuo. She was the variable missing from his life plan, the first shallow reef his pride ever struck. He couldn’t understand why all the passion he poured into her couldn’t earn even one look of approval. She was the one he couldn’t have, the regret he couldn’t lay to rest, and the one contest he wanted to win in his reckless youth, yet kept losing points in.
He was her “trouble” and the one she “dared not” choose.
Xu Nuo had always strived for a life that was safe and orderly. Then Luo Chen appeared like an uncontrollable hurricane, sweeping away all her order and peace. He was the one choice that had no place on her list of rational options, a boulder thrown into her tranquil heart. She feared his boldness would set her life ablaze, and even more, that the walls she had built around her heart would quietly melt beneath his unintentional warmth.
But the story doesn’t end there:
This is also a long battle of hearts, stretching from the awkwardness of school days into the complexities of adulthood.
When the sandpaper of time has worn down their sharp edges, and the price of growing up has taught them how to love better, the haze between them will finally clear. They will come to understand that some people are both the twists fate has ordained and the only way home.
She was the last thing he expected, and the one he was determined to win.
He was the chaos that upended her life, and the force that drew her heart toward him.
