[Older love|12-year age gap|Slow-burn healing|Saving each other|One-on-one, happy ending]
On a summer day when cicadas sang across the world, a strange woman entered Bie Shan’s life.
She was quiet and rarely smiled, like a crescent moon suspended at the edge of the sky, surrounded by a chill that could not be softened.
Then one day, by chance, she smiled at her. In that moment, Bie Shan thought: If I could keep that smile on her face, I would pay any price.
Through her brown eyes, Wen Sui dared to look directly at the sun for the first time.
The scorching heat and pain she had imagined never came. Instead, she was met by a beam of light so gentle it was almost indulgent.
From then on, Wen Sui began to crave that light with reckless intensity, nurturing the most selfish of obsessions: I want to make her mine. More than that, I want to glimpse in those eyes the love I never had in the first half of my life.
Continues the setting and background of the previous book.
