[Childhood friends, older woman and younger man · secret crush · younger man · mutually bound together · angst before sweetness, happy ending]
Summers in the southern town always seem to last forever.
Su Nianxi always thought Fu Xubai was just the little boy who followed her around, a younger brother she needed to protect.
She didn't know that the boy's feelings had taken root in secret, hidden away for his entire youth.
The day he was taken away, she waved and said, “Let's keep in touch,” thinking it was just an ordinary parting.
But she didn't see the decade of longing in the way he looked back at her.
When they meet again, he's the decisive Mr. Fu everyone talks about, cold as ice, except when he lowers his gaze to her.
He says, “Nianxi, stop treating me like your little brother.”
It turns out that from beginning to end, she has always been the only one in his world.
