A thoughtful, gentle heiress × a brilliant boy, broken and starved for love
"Xu Wei, can you let me leave a little more of myself in your world?"
That summer when she was seventeen, with cicadas shrilling in the heat, Xu Wei was sent by her family to Hanwu Town, where she met Gong Yu.
He was quiet and always seemed distant, yet he was there whenever she was at her most embarrassed, calmly rescuing her from awkward situations.
The breeze slipping in through the windowsill, the warm milk secretly placed in her desk drawer, his quiet, reassuring company on the walk home from school, and the practice notes he hid in his desk and never showed anyone became the safest place she had throughout high school.
Tender and gentle in the little things, quiet yet burning hot.
After a love neither of them ever put into words, mountains and seas parted them, and they each went on to live different lives.
She went abroad to study. He threw himself into the professional esports circuit, making his way from a corner of a small town to the esports stage beneath the spotlights.
In Xu Wei's eyes, their whole journey was one long series of missed chances.
The first half was the love she hadn't dared to confess.
The second half was him crossing a thousand miles to come to her, carrying all the glory he had won.
But the truth was, Gong Yu had never needed her confession.
There was only one place Gong Yu was headed: to her.
Whether he spent his days quietly savoring life or wandered the world amid glittering pleasures,
The place he most wanted to be was by her side.
