Rekindled love | A thousand-year romance | Avoidant writer shou × yandere long-haired beauty gong (complete manuscript)
Lin Qingye is a writer. He has written about all the joys and sorrows of the world, yet has never dared to believe that anyone could love him.
He has an avoidant attachment style: he longs to get close, but always runs away when love comes his way. He thought his life would stay that way: alone with a pen, writing until old age.
Then he opened the door to a flower shop in an ancient town.
Shen Jingci stood among the flowers, his long hair black as ink and his features as lovely as a painting. “Welcome,” he said.
Lin Qingye had no idea that this man had been waiting for him for twelve hundred years.
Shen Jingci is the town’s earth god. For a thousand years, he has guarded this land and held on to one obsession: waiting for someone, someone who would open that door.
At last, he came.
But when a god and a mortal fall in love, there is a price to pay.
Shen Jingci’s divine energy will erode Lin Qingye’s life force. If they stay together, Lin Qingye won’t live another three years.
Breaking up was the last protection Shen Jingci could offer him.
Five years later, they meet again at a business dinner. Lin Qingye splashes wine in Shen Jingci’s face and sneers, “Mr. Shen, long time no see.”
He doesn’t know that for the past five years, Shen Jingci has made a cup of hot chocolate every day, let it go cold, poured it away, and made another.
He doesn’t know that Shen Jingci has read every one of his books ten times and can recite the most moving passages by heart.
He doesn’t know that Shen Jingci paid his younger sister’s tuition, covered his royalties, and was the car waiting outside the bar every time he got drunk.
He hated this man for five years.
He had no idea that this man had loved him for twelve hundred years.
