* A healing story about growing up as foster siblings / Told in chronological order / About a four-year age gap
* Honest and stubborn x bright and carefree
During the summer before starting junior high, Cheng Jinyu was sent to stay with the Lin family.
That was the first time she ever saw Lin Yiyuan, as far back as she could remember.
New to the household, she was nervous and ill at ease. She didn't dare get too familiar with him, much less call him big brother.
Back then, Lin Yiyuan leaned against the wall with his arms crossed. When his dark gaze swept over her, it felt like an invisible weight, and he deliberately asked, "Are you scared of me?"
She replied without much confidence, "...No."
When there was no response for a while, Cheng Jinyu nervously looked up and happened to meet his bright, sparkling eyes.
He held back a smile. "Then why don't you call me big brother?"
From then on, she called him big brother for many years.
Their friends all knew Lin Yiyuan had gained a little sister. He was always rushing around to help her and watch over her, and he often stood his friends up for her sake. So they were always teasing him for being the kind of guy who put his sister before his friends.
Lin Yiyuan never got annoyed. Smiling openly, he would say, "That's right. I treat her like my real little sister."
Later, when the family went through a crisis and Lin Yiyuan crossed two thousand kilometers to appear before her, he told her the same thing.
But he had no idea that those words forced the feelings growing in her heart to come to a halt.
It wasn't until college, at a dinner with her debate team, that things changed.
As the gathering broke up, an upperclassman from her department chased after Cheng Jinyu with a bouquet and confessed his feelings. Lin Yiyuan happened to be there to take her home and saw it all.
Under the dim streetlights, Lin Yiyuan watched the young man in the distance without a hint of emotion. The lighter in his hand clicked on and off at irregular intervals.
He asked, though he already knew the answer, "That guy wants to confess to you."
Cheng Jinyu said, "It seems like it..."
Lin Yiyuan sounded surprisingly generous. "Go ahead."
She had only taken two steps when his voice came from behind her again, faintly tinged with jealousy. "Turn him down."
/It doesn't matter that winter is here now
/Because I'll be there to accompany you until spring
Theme: Being there for each other through the rainy seasons of life
