Yu Bingwen had always waited for Tao Zhiye to grow up. At last, when she turned eighteen, he finally dared to reveal his feelings. He was a gifted computer science professor, and she was an incoming freshman at Qingti University. He took a job teaching at her school just to get closer to her. He went to great lengths to win her over, only to be met with constant rejection. She acted willfully, pouted, and threw tantrums time and again, treating him harshly as if it were all perfectly ordinary. The beloved are always fearless, while those in love are brought to their knees.
Yu Bingwen was nine years older than Tao Zhiye. At an age when she knew nothing about love, she encountered a man who loved her more than life itself. She couldn't understand how the man who had always acted as her older brother could suddenly want to be her boyfriend. Faced with his unwavering pursuit, she resisted, avoided him, and even grew to hate him... Tao Zhiye always thought she was the one being pursued, but from the very beginning, she had held absolute control over their relationship. Whether she cried, laughed, or threw a fit, everything she did tugged at his heartstrings.
She always knew exactly what to say and do to hurt him most, yet she insisted on treating him that way, taking the role of tormentor and issuing commands from the high ground of their relationship. If he dared disobey, she would punish him by keeping herself away. But that was what he feared most. Not seeing her was enough to kill him. He spoiled and indulged her, yet Tao Zhiye kept pushing past his limits. Through countless nights of pain that brought him to tears, he suffered in silence. But when the sun rose the next morning, he became a sunflower turning toward the light again, chasing after his little sun
