Older novelist top, You Qi X spoiled, temperamental CEO bottom, Gui Chi
Modern danmei, two male leads + three-year age gap + getting back together after a breakup
In their seventh year together, Gui Chi and You Qi broke up.
There were no hysterical arguments and no desperate pleas to stay. You Qi was standing in the kitchen, a pot of stomach-soothing congee still simmering on the stove. In a single night, their whole world turned upside down.
His friend asked Gui Chi, “Do you still love him?”
Gui Chi said yes.
You Qi had been his first youthful crush and the longing he carried through the years. Gui Chi believed he had been sincere enough in love, but at twenty-six, he could no longer figure out whether the relationship he had once demanded with an overwhelming passion was what You Qi wanted, too.
You Qi’s love was too quiet, like dew settling unnoticed on leaves on a morning after the spring equinox. It was so hard to notice, except for the rare moment when Gui Chi saw the hem of his clothes damp with dew.
You Qi treated Gui Chi well, as considerate as any older partner indulging a younger lover. Yet even held in warm arms every night, Gui Chi still could not feel the passion he craved. He began to act like an inexperienced boy, hesitating and testing the waters at every turn.
He had no idea that You Qi had prepared to be left behind from the very beginning of their relationship. A late-arriving bird would eventually have its nest buried and crushed beneath the frost and snow. You Qi had always been waiting for Gui Chi to regret it, so he could withdraw and leave.
You Qi’s name meant drifting through the world, with no branch to call home.
You Qi thought he would go through his whole life without a branch to call home. But three years later, the person he had once sent back to a dazzling world with his own hands came running to him again.
You Qi had been ill for a long time. Gui Chi wanted to build him a sturdy nest with his own hands, so the lonely blue bird would finally have a branch to call home.
