The most unbelievable things Yu Xi has ever done in her life were giving up the family business to enter the entertainment industry, and falling for Lu Quan.
Lu Quan was her neighbor, a childhood confidant four years her senior.
They used to play together all the time.
But when Lu Quan went abroad to study in high school, they both started new lives and gradually lost touch.
Yu Xi always remembered him as warm and gentle, and felt safe by his side.
When they met again years later, Lu Quan had changed. He was stern and cold as ice.
They were awkward and distant, like a man and woman meeting for the first time.
After one seemingly fated reunion after another, Yu Xi realized she might have fallen for Lu Quan.
She was timid, and didn't dare confess without knowing how Lu Quan felt.
Whenever they were alone together again, she grew even more stiff and awkward.
She never expected that one day Lu Quan would confess to her.
“I've liked you for a long time,” he said. “Thinking about it carefully, I think I've liked you longer than we were apart.”
Yu Xi was flustered. Faced with Lu Quan's years of secret love, she began sorting through her own feelings for him...
It seemed she had liked Lu Quan for a long time, too.
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Lu Quan's coldness toward Yu Xi came from his helplessness when he realized he had fallen for her.
He restrained his desire to get closer, and that restraint became the catalyst for their growing distance.
Once he finally understood his feelings, he confessed.
But he also revealed some astonishing facts to Yu Xi.
He was her devoted fan, the kind with Level 16 status in her fan community...
Yu Xi smiled faintly. “Keep going. You haven't reached the highest level yet.”
After saying that, Yu Xi discovered another side of Lu Quan that no one knew.
It turned out he was also clingy and loved to act spoiled.
Where had that aloof, domineering CEO gone???
[Reader's Guide]
1. One-on-one romance, both leads have no past relationships, childhood friends, mutual unrequited love, happy ending.
2. The heroine is slow on the uptake, and the hero is emotionally conflicted. The push and pull of their ambiguous relationship lasts a while.
3. Both have family trauma, and they heal each other after opening up.
4. Includes a secondary couple and focuses heavily on the plot.
Theme: A love that grows slowly and steadily, and mutual healing.
