The First Experience of Love

[Eight-year age gap | Pseudo-siblings | Constant bickering | Sweet with a spicy kick] Troublemaker (Li Jialan) × Says one thing, means another (Chi Yanyun) A young man walked Li Jialan home, only to run into Chi Yanyun, who had just returned from overseas. Word was that he’d done something crazy this time, climbing over a dozen big walls and hanging hundreds of meters in the air for more than a month, relying on just a few ropes. Li Jialan thought he’d come back looking like a wild man who lived off the land. She never expected that he’d only gotten a little thinner, and that a suit made him look even more attractive than before. Since her mother had forbidden her from dating in college, Li Jialan could only plead, “Bro, you’re not going to tell Mom what just happened, are you?” Chi Yanyun’s clear eyes were reflected in the elevator. He said quietly, “You should be more worried about what happened in Daocheng.” Half a year earlier, just after Li Jialan had turned eighteen, she’d copied other people and gone on a road trip. On the overnight drive back, she’d mistaken Chi Yanyun for a man she could pick up. At the mention of that, Li Jialan relaxed instead. She stood there with her backpack slung over her shoulders, posture anything but proper. “Oh, that? I’m not worried at all. You won’t tell.” The tendons on the back of Chi Yanyun’s hand stood out clearly. Because he’d scraped it on a rock face, the skin there was unusually sensitive. The hem of Li Jialan’s school uniform brushed against it almost imperceptibly, and a sudden itch rose from that patch of skin. The elevator reached their floor. Li Jialan grinned and walked out, completely unafraid. - At first, Li Jialan was only playing a prank on him, curious to see the real Chi Yanyun beneath his aloof, untouchable facade. Later, she sensed the danger and tried to pull away, only to realize it was already too late. She never expected that a man as calm and self-controlled as Chi Yanyun, as towering and immovable as a high tower, would one day raise such a commotion and come crashing down for her. [Note] 1. The leads are cousins by marriage, not blood. 2. There is an eight-year age gap, and the female lead is an adult when the story begins. Theme: Losing your way and finding yourself.