Year After Year, Beneath the Evening Star

[Healing each other + sweet and angsty + a groveling ex + mutual pining + both virgins + happy ending]

When he was twelve, he moved into her home and began living under someone else’s roof.

But he discovered he wasn’t the only one without a home. There was also Lin Wanxing.

Two people with no home became a home for each other. Two people no one noticed were seen only by each other.

Everyone thought Li Jingzhun was the one saving Lin Wanxing in their relationship. He taught her how to grow up, make friends, and love herself.

No one knew that he was the one who had been saved.

“She’s my little sister.” Li Jinghuai repeated it to himself for four years.

When Lin Wanxing first realized she had fallen for Li Jinghuai, she was so ashamed that she didn’t dare confess her feelings. Yet when another girl confessed to him, she turned and ran.

Li Jinghuai watched her retreating figure and realized that perhaps Wanwan liked him too.

The second time they kissed, Lin Wanxing asked him why it was the second time. He replied, “The first time I kissed you was with my eyes.”

Later, someone told him, “What you’re doing is wrong. To outsiders, you’re brother and sister. Have you thought about how she’ll live with that?”

He stayed silent all night. The next day, he told her, “I only think of you as my sister.”

After leaving, he secretly created an account and added Litchi as a friend. He never said a word, only scrolled through Litchi’s posts.

He saved every photo she appeared in and zoomed in to look at her face. She had lost weight.

Five years later, his grandmother died, and he returned for the funeral. Across a corridor, they both saw that the bracelet was still on the other’s wrist…