An Older Man: North Meets South, Just in Time for the Rest of Our Lives

Adult romance | Contemporary romance | Women’s growth | Sweet-and-angsty push-and-pull | The best kind of fate isn’t meeting when we were young and barely a stone’s throw apart.

It’s meeting just when we’re both battered and bruised...

A cold rain in the north and a last-minute rideshare brought Li Xinmian and Zhang Cenyi’s lives together.

She had traveled a long way to find her younger brother. Her old romance had just ended, and her life was already a mess.

He traveled from city to city for work and had just come out of a failed relationship himself. He didn’t dare fall for anyone again.

They kept each other company in silence along the way, thinking that they would part and go their separate ways.

But fate played a grand joke on them.

They had once been a hundred kilometers apart in Guangzhou, watching the same rain, but never met.

It took a journey thousands of kilometers north for them to finally cross paths.

The agony of visiting day, her family’s harsh criticism, and society’s judgment trapped Li Xinmian in a vice.

She didn’t dare reach out and accept his kindness.

But Zhang Cenyi kept coming to see her between business trips.

He caught her tears when she fell apart and shielded her from the torrent of criticism.

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