【Period setting × gentle, resilient country girl × brooding, obsessive younger man】
【Mutual healing + the male lead only loves her + female growth + mild coercion】
In 2003, seven-year-old Zhou Jiming was abducted and taken deep into the mountains. While fleeing in a panic, he lost his way.
Twelve-year-old Chen Chunxiao gave him a bowl of food, a bed, and a lamp that stayed lit all night.
For years, she taught him to read, to keep moving forward, and to leave the mountains one day to see the wider world.
But she never realized that the child who once feared the dark and feared someone outside the window would come to take him away grew up to fear one thing most of all: her leaving.
Later, Chen Chunxiao was the first to leave the mountains.
Zhou Jiming finally found out who he was and returned to the privileged life he had once known.
Two years later, he sat down at her little noodle shop and ordered the same bowl of noodles, day after day.
She pretended not to know him, so he played along.
Until she politely called him “Sir” again.
Zhou Jiming looked at her, his eyes turning red.
“In the world I’ve known since I was seven, what day hasn’t had you in it?”
“And now you’re telling me we live in different worlds?”
(Working blurb)
