Reunion at the Start | 12-Year Age Gap | Intense, Angsty Push and Pull | Unrequited Love Comes True | Staying Under His Roof | The Powerful Man Loses Control
Sheltered Heiress × Powerful Daddy
Ji Xi first met Wen Tingyu at her father's wedding.
That year, she was thirteen, and the unhappiest person at the whole wedding. She slipped away and hid in the yard, eyes red, where he found her and handed her a tissue.
Later, Ji Xi was sent to an elite school, and her father asked him to look after her. She stayed at the Wen family home on weekends and called him "Uncle Wen." He accepted the title without a second thought.
Wen Tingyu was a friend of Ji Xi's father, so she was supposed to call him "Uncle Wen." He sheltered her, took responsibility for her, and raised her into the most well-behaved plant in a greenhouse.
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Wen Tingyu thought he was only looking after an old friend's daughter.
He told himself that his urge to draw closer to her was concern, tenderness, an elder's care for a younger person.
He used reason to draw a boundary, then blurred it with kindness. Until the night of her eighteenth-birthday celebration, when the girl, flushed from drinking, blocked his way between the desk and chairs in his study.
"I... can I kiss you?"
Wen Tingyu looked up at her, suppressing his agitation. His voice was low and husky. "Do you know what you're doing?"
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Later, they went their separate ways. When they met again, it was at a dinner gathering.
She arrived with another man. Wen Tingyu said nothing and made him drink three glasses as punishment.
In the restroom, he pinned her against the wall, tilted up her chin, and bent down to kiss her. His voice was low and hoarse, almost coaxing:
"Be good, Xixi. Go break up with him."
*No intimate scenes before she comes of age
*SC/HE
*The leads are not perfect people
Theme: The brave get to enjoy the world first
