Bow Your Head and Kiss Me

[School life + devoted to each other + healing + angsty push and pull + happy ending]

[Blunt but secretly soft Yun Ye vs. guarded, prickly Shen Wu]

In her senior year of high school, Shen Wu moves with her mother into the Yun family after her mother remarries.

There’s now a stepbrother in the house, and the first time they meet, he calls her a fake.

His best friend and childhood sweetheart take turns picking on her.

Shen Wu tells him outright that she won’t touch anything belonging to the Yun family and will move out soon.

He tosses her a look of disgust and says, “You’re annoying. Stay away from me.”

The first time she tells him no, a barely perceptible danger lurks in his eyes. “Little sister, you don’t seem very well-behaved.”

“I don’t want to repeat myself. Understand?”

He crosses his arms, the corners of his mouth curling in a reckless grin. “Be good.”

Later, Shen Wu sees him in the bathroom holding one of her little tops. “What are you doing?”

His eyes lowered, he smiles in a wild, wicked way. “It was dirty, so I’m washing it.”

His friends all think Shen Wu is a master manipulator, playing hard to get until she has him wrapped around her finger.

No one knows that, from beginning to end, he’s the one who has been plotting and inching closer to her.

He was never the one being played. It’s just that when it comes to her, he willingly sets aside all his pride and sharp edges, gives in first, and saves all his affection and compromises for her alone.