[Sweet romance + HE + contrasting personalities]
[Beautiful troublemaker heroine + doting boy-next-door older brother + super-handsome military academy shooting instructor, 1v2]
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With the courage she’d found in a few drinks, Lin Qingyin confessed to Lu Yueshen. She thought eighteen years of companionship and his attentive affection might earn her a chance.
But Lu Yueshen only gently tucked her into bed and said, “Qingyin, you’ve had too much to drink. Go to sleep. You’ll feel better tomorrow.”
He didn’t even take her seriously.
He dismissed her words as drunken rambling and her sincere feelings as childish nonsense.
That was when Lin Qingyin finally understood: in his eyes, she would always be the little sister who needed looking after, never a woman.
That was when Lin Qingyin finally understood: some tenderness had never had anything to do with love.
She turned and left without crying or making a scene. She simply redirected her attention and threw herself into the shooting range, determined to stop focusing on him.
Everyone waited for the eldest daughter of the Lin family to crumble from heartbreak and go running back to beg Lu Yueshen.
But they waited in vain.
At the shooting range, the girl who had once lowered herself into the dust for someone was gripping a gun and pulling the trigger again and again. When her shots missed the target, she adjusted her breathing. When her arms went numb, she gritted her teeth and kept going.
Then a stern voice sounded behind her. “Your grip is wrong. Your shoulders are slumped.”
Lin Qingyin turned and met a pair of unfathomable eyes. The man wore black training fatigues, his back straight as a pine tree. He was He Chenzhou, the shooting instructor. He reached out, his long, clearly defined fingers steadying her gun. The warmth of his palm made her shiver.
