[Headstrong and obsessive, cool and self-possessed, inheritor of an intangible cultural heritage] X [older, fatherly, restrained and brooding, domineering CEO]
Age gap / healing / both virgins / groveling pursuit after the breakup
Xu Baici is nothing like her name suggests. She's no pure white flower. Her family abandoned her when she was little. After her mother died, her father remarried and had a son. The three of them were a happy family, with only her left over as an unwanted extra. Lin Yuzong was the only light in her life.
Because of his mother, the Lin family was willing to take her in. She became Lin Yuzong's younger sister in name. Gentle, modest, and impeccably polite, Lin Yuzong treated her like his own sister and took good care of her.
But Xu Baici knew the truth: Lin Yuzong had never had improper feelings for her, but she did not feel the same way about him.
When she was eighteen, Xu Baici went to bring home a drunk Lin Yuzong. As she carried the man, who was much heavier than her, to his bed, she felt a desire she had never dared to feel in her eighteen years. Half-asleep, he put the gift he'd bought for her around her neck. Xu Baici looked down and saw a flawless pearl, exquisite in both design and size.
“Xiao Ci, you look beautiful wearing this.”
Those words made Xu Baici kiss him.
It was light, over in an instant.
The next day, Lin Yuzong seemed like a different person. They still got along, but there were many more boundaries between them. Even though Xu Baici told herself not to care, she couldn't stand it.
“Brother, I like you.” Xu Baici confessed. All she got in return was Lin Yuzong's rejection.
So she followed the father who despised her back to that house, becoming flawed white porcelain.
