"Uncle, have we met before?"
At 24, Liu Susu hit a dead end in her job search on a rainy night in City C. Soaked to the skin, she watched a black car pull up in front of her.
The window rolled down. The man inside had striking features and a deep voice. "Get in. I'll give you a ride."
She thought it was a stranger's kindness, until he became her new boss. He quietly solved all her problems, remembered everything she liked, and looked at her so tenderly that it made her heart flutter.
Then one day, he took her hand and gently traced the faint birthmark on her wrist. "Susu, eighteen years ago in City B, the day you got lost, my nephew found you by the roadside."
It turned out fate had been laying the groundwork all along.
At five, she was abducted and ran off in a panic. Lin Zixuan, the youngest grandson of the Lin family, brought her home.
That summer, ten-year-old Lin Yijia saw the little crybaby who had suddenly appeared in his house and learned how to comfort someone for the first time. "Don't cry. Big Brother will give you some candy."
Later, her birth parents found her, and the two families lost touch.
He searched for her for eighteen whole years.
After they reunited, Lin Yijia gave her all the restraint he had.
She was short on money, so he quietly sent funds to her family's account.
She was bullied, so he made the rival company go bankrupt overnight.
She felt inferior because of the gap in their status, so he knelt before her parents. "I'm ten years older than Susu. I'm the one who doesn't deserve her."
Everyone said the Lin heir was cold and merciless, never knowing that every bit of tenderness in his life belonged to the girl who had once sheltered from the rain beneath a roof on that stormy night.
"Susu, when you were five, I couldn't keep you by my side. Now that you're twenty-four, I won't let you go again."
