[One-on-one romance | Both leads are devoted only to each other | A relationship built through strict discipline | 11-year age gap | Plot-twist comment feed]
When Jiang Nian was nine, she lost everything.
Her parents died in a plane crash. She stood by the river, ready to jump, when twenty-year-old Jin Huaiqing happened to pass by. He pulled her away from the railing and took her home.
But on her eighteenth birthday, a flood of comments suddenly appeared before Jiang Nian’s eyes
[She’s finally grown up. Now the supporting female character should fall for the male lead, right?]
[The male lead is already sick of her, he’s just too polite to say so.]
[Just wait. The female lead is about to appear, and then she’ll get kicked out.]
The comments said she was a supporting female character in this world.
The comments said he was about to fall in love with someone else.
She didn’t believe a word of it.
But day after day, the comments kept scrolling by, and day after day, she kept reading them.
He started smiling at other people. He started praising others for being “highly capable at work.”
The comments interpreted every little thing as “he hates you,” “she’s replacing you,” and “you’re about to get kicked out.”
Jiang Nian packed her things, wrote a note, and prepared to leave on her own.
Jin Huaiqing dragged her back and demanded an explanation, his expression frighteningly grim.
The ruler tapped the table once, then twice.
“I raised you for nine years, from the age of nine to eighteen. Did I do all that just to drive you away?”
He crouched down, bracing both hands on her knees, and looked up at her.
“I like you too. Not as a brother.”
After raising her for nine years, he’d raised her into his wife. Did she really think he’d let her go?
The comments exploded: [What’s going on?? This isn’t how the script is supposed to go!!!]
I came to read this one after reading the first book.