My Handsome Neighbor Can’t Hide His Feelings Anymore

Ever since Su Nianxing was old enough to remember, her eyes had been fixed on Fu Chenyuan, the boy next door who was ten years older than her.

Their mothers were best friends, and their family businesses worked closely together. They traveled together every year and visited each other every day. Even when she was still a tiny toddler, she loved crawling into Fu Chenyuan's arms and nibbling at his handsome face. Though the young master of the Fu family was aloof and abstinent toward the outside world, and detested any other woman getting close, he indulged all her clinginess and childish affection. For years, he treated her like a beloved little sister and grew used to having her follow him everywhere, never leaving his side.

Their carefree companionship came to an end the year she turned eighteen and went to study in the United States. On the very first day away from him, her longing grew uncontrollably, and she finally realized that her decade of dependence had long since become a secret love etched into her bones.

She secretly returned home during a break. At eighteen, she summoned all her courage and confessed her feelings to him, now twenty-eight, only to receive a gentle but resolute rejection. She cried until she broke down, he panicked and didn't know what to do, and when she kissed him forcefully through her tears, he fled in disarray. For the next year, every time she came home, she flirted with him and edged closer, pursuing him with unwavering determination.

At nineteen, she took advantage of his drunken return home and quietly stepped into his world, breaking through the last barrier between them. After a night of tenderness, Fu Chenyuan gazed at her sleeping in his arms and finally let down every guard, cautiously beginning the love he had kept hidden. This ten-year age-gap romance, his indulgent love for a younger woman, was something the two of them secretly protected for a full two years.

But secrets cannot stay hidden forever. The day their relationship came to light, Fu Chenyuan's parents were delighted and did everything they could to help them, while Su Nianxing's mother was gentle, accepting, and understanding. Only Su Nianxing's father flew into a rage, convinced that someone had stolen the precious cabbage his family had lovingly raised, and turned against them on the spot. From then on,