The Long, Bright Night of Frost

Fourteen years ago, on a snowy night, he picked up a four-year-old girl.

Back then, fourteen-year-old Lin Lie was an overlooked young master of the Lin family, with a long-dead mother and a cold father. The little girl curled up in the snow was the only light in his long winter nights.

He named her Lin Jin and kept her by his side.

From a guesthouse to a rented room, from comfort to hardship, from a stable life to life on the run: through fourteen years of relying on one another, he hid all his tenderness in silence, while her dependence on him grew into something towering.

He thought he was protecting her. She thought it was family affection.

Then the truth cut through their peaceful life like a knife.

It turned out that her past was tied to a pollution scandal covered up seventeen years ago. It turned out that both his mother’s death and her mother’s death were connected to the same conspiracy.

When protection becomes a cage, when dependence touches the forbidden, when the person you trust most bares a blade

that is when they discover that some feelings have already gone beyond blood ties and sunk deep into their bones.

“Lin Lie, will you always stay by my side?”

“Yes.”

This is a story of protection and redemption.

A glimmer found on a snowy night, the long night giving way to dawn. Amid the bitter blizzards of fate, fourteen years prove one thing:

Once you have someone in your grasp, you’ll never let go.