Lin Shenyi gives her first relationship everything she's got.
She reaches for his hand first, hugs him first, and tells him she likes him first. She thinks that if you like someone, you should let them know. What's the point of keeping it to yourself?
Her boyfriend, Chen Yubai, doesn't reject her, but he never returns her affection either.
He only says, “Your feelings are too much. They put a lot of pressure on me.”
The day they break up, he says something she'll never forget for the rest of her life.
From then on, Lin Shenyi learns to hold back. She doesn't initiate, doesn't express her feelings, and never lets anyone think she's “too much.” Over seven years, she turns herself into a composed, professional relationship counselor who never misses a detail, solving other people's problems while never getting involved in her own.
Until that man appears.
He enters her life at his own pace, never judging or rushing her, never making her feel that she's “not doing enough.”
He just says, “You don't have to hold back. I can handle it.”
For the first time, Lin Shenyi realizes:
“Too much” was never the problem. The problem was being with someone who couldn't handle it.
