[Older Woman/Younger Man Romance + Seven-Year Age Gap + Two Strong Leads + One-on-One Romance + Happy Ending]
Gu Woyu is twenty-eight, pursuing her doctorate at Qingyang University. Born into the prestigious Gu family of Nanjiang, she has led a privileged, smooth-sailing life. Her one real regret is that she's spent years searching for someone. Fourteen years have passed, and she still hasn't found them. She's nearly ready to give up.
Luo Fuzhou is twenty-one, a native of Qingyang. After returning to China three years ago, he took over the family business and has been too busy with work to think about anything else.
Their social circles barely overlap. They know each other, but aren't close. That is, until an accident leaves her drugged and him feverish, trapping them in the same room in the most humiliating circumstances.
"Gu Woyu, have you lost your mind?" Luo Fuzhou's long-standing calm and composure finally cracked.
"Lost my mind? I was just feeling awful!" Under the drug's influence, Gu Woyu was brazenly unapologetic.
She pinned him to the bed, but he didn't let her get her way.
In the end, they both wound up in the hospital.
They met again in a cemetery.
Gu Woyu saw someone pull a knife on Luo Fuzhou and subdued the attacker in moments.
He tended to the wound that had reopened on her leg, head bowed, his touch gentle. "Thank you for what you did today."
"It was nothing."
They weren't close, and things should have ended there. But Qingyang was a small place, and somehow they kept running into each other more and more often.
[Content note: This novel shares a consistent world with the author's two previous completed works, and the protagonists are connected to each other. There will be guest appearances, but the timelines barely overlap with those of the previous two novels, except for one extra. One of the previous novels has two male leads, one of whom is the heroine's childhood friend.]
