Where the Stars Return, There You Are

When Shen Zhiyi was eight, her parents died in a car accident, and she was adopted by the Shen family, old friends of her parents. The Lu family lived next door, and they had a son, Lu Siheng, who was five years older than her. She secretly loved him for fourteen years, but could only bring herself to call him “Brother Siheng.” Lu Siheng loved her too, but was afraid of frightening her. He always acted like an older brother and kept his feelings carefully hidden. At a party, someone drugged Lu Siheng. Shen Zhiyi went to look after him, and the two spent one reckless night together. The next day, he couldn’t remember what had happened and thought it had all been a dream. But Shen Zhiyi became pregnant and went to Paris alone, where she gave birth to their son, Xingxing. She gritted her teeth and raised him by herself, becoming a jewelry designer along the way. Five years later, she returned home with Xingxing. The more Lu Siheng looked at the boy, the more something felt off. A DNA test confirmed it: he was his son. Only then did he learn that the night they spent together hadn’t been a dream. What he still didn’t know was that Shen Zhiyi had had eyes for him alone since she was thirteen. At last, the two hearts that had been hiding for over a decade no longer had to keep their feelings secret.