[Sickly male lead / hurt-comfort romance / reunion after years apart / childhood friends reunited / 1v1 / healing and saving each other / happy ending]
[Quirky, rebellious ray of sunshine x insecure, self-destructive, sickly, brooding young man]
The most important thing in Le Taotao’s life is freedom. Freedom, and more freedom.
In pursuit of it, she runs away from home to Yuncheng, where she runs into her childhood friend Qiao Huaichu, whom she has not seen in years.
He is just as he was when they were children: quiet, long-suffering, gentle, and pale with illness, yet always smiling at everyone.
But he is also different. Even when he smiles, his eyes are clouded with an exhaustion and sorrow that never fade.
He seems to be hiding a great deal, and Le Taotao cannot figure him out.
Even so, she still wants to get closer to him. When she takes a step forward, he takes two back.
She gives up, but then he comes after her. Weeping, he tears away his disguise, baring all his shame as if ripping open his own chest.
“Don’t go... Please, don’t go...”
His mind is hazy. Coughing up blood, he ties her hand to the headboard. His touch is exquisitely gentle, but his eyes burn with an utterly pathological possessiveness, as if he means to devour her whole.
“It’s dangerous outside. Stay here with me, forever.
Never grow up. Never leave me.”
She looks up and is stunned to see that his room is covered with photographs of her from childhood to the present, along with posts from her social media. The room itself is decorated exactly like her bedroom from more than a decade ago...
Oh my god!!! When did my sweet, sickly childhood friend turn into a creepy, possessive yandere?!
