[Male First-Person POV | Realistic Youth Redemption | Second Chance After Fifteen Years | Not a Female-Lead Revenge Fantasy]
⚠️ Important: This story is told entirely from the male lead’s perspective. At its heart, it’s about a young man making peace with himself and atoning for his mistakes. Please don’t read if that’s not for you.
The distant moonlight is Chi Yan, the girl I pushed away with my own hands at seventeen;
The warmth of everyday life is Wenwan, the gentle girl I nearly lost at nineteen.
The book, "Distant Moonlight, A Lifetime in the Human World," tells the story of how I spent fifteen years atoning for the two times I let them down when I was young.
At seventeen, in the evening breeze of Sucheng, I met Chi Yan, a girl who shared my surname.
She was the first ray of light to shine into my lonely years. She taught me tenderness and how to believe, but because of the ridiculous stubbornness of youth, I crushed that light with my own hands and scattered it to the wind.
Letting go once became a lifetime of regret.
At nineteen, through a message in a bottle during the bitter winter, I met Wenwan.
With fifty-six birthday wishes, she pulled me out of the mire of self-loathing and gave me the warmest, most grounded kind of happiness. But clinging to an obsession whose time had passed, I trampled her sincerity underfoot all over again.
Two betrayals, half a lifetime of guilt.
It took me a full fifteen years to finally understand:
Moonlight may fade, but the lights of home can shine for her again, if only I give it everything I have.
This time, I’ll stay by my side of the world, year after year.
