After My Cheating Ex Dumped Me, My Younger Coworker Started Plotting to Win Me Over

[Younger man + small-town life + government workplace + female lead has past relationships, male lead does not + love at first sight + realistic fiction] A promising male graduate student who has just finished school & an ordinary female government employee whose life is already set He is the son of a wealthy businessman, a favorite of heaven. She is an ordinary, unremarkable girl, small and insignificant. Their worlds are so far apart that they should never have met. Abandoned by a scumbag and diagnosed with a terminal illness, she drinks herself into a stupor at a quiet bar. He helps her on impulse, only for her, blacked out drunk, to kiss him without warning. From that moment on, he is thrown into turmoil, while she wakes up knowing nothing. He knows she suffers from premature aging, is deep in depression, and is sensitive and fragile. Still, he willingly and deliberately closes in on her, step by step. Her first love suddenly returns, stirring up a storm. Overwhelmed by her own insecurity, she feels she isn’t good enough for them and tries desperately to retreat. But he refuses to let go. Every step she takes back, he moves one step closer. He is determined to win this love and will never give up. Can they overcome every obstacle and reach the shores of happiness?