"When people live, they must find their own meaning."
Before her death, her mother left these words to eight-year-old Lin Yanqing.
Her father died to save the young master of the Lu family, and her mother died in love. She became the third orphan adopted by the Lu family. There is no backing, no retreat. The Lu family does not leave anyone idle. If you want to stay, there is only one condition - to be useful.
So she regarded "making Lu Sihan happy" as the meaning of living.
He had a violent personality, so she learned to put away all the fragile things before he broke the bowl; he was afraid of the dark and could not sleep, so she knocked on the wall three times to tell him "I am here"; when he had a high fever and couldn't wake up, she stayed with him all night and let him hold her hands until they turned blue.
She lived like this until she was sixteen.
Everyone felt that she was Lu Sihan's "tamer" and the most successful investment of the Lu family.
Until she discovered that she seemed to have never lived a day for herself.
Mother's words came back to her. This time, she made a choice - to go to the university that he never wanted her to go to, and to walk out of the door where she had stayed for eight years.
Lu Sihan never thought she would leave.
He thought she would always stand outside the door, always respond to his three knocks on the wall, and always put hot milk half an arm's length away from him.
It wasn't until she left without looking back that he realized that the little girl who coaxed him to take medicine, bandaged him, and huddled up with a rabbit in a thunderstorm had long since grown her own bones.
But this time, it wasn't that she was afraid of losing him. It was because he was afraid that he would never be qualified to stand in front of her again.
