An emotionally stunted killer who needs lessons to learn how to love, bottom VS a younger powerful man who controls both money and influence but never handles anything quite right, top
On his eighteenth birthday, Gu Dejun said to the man he'd brought home, "I love you."
The man's expression seemed to ask, So what? Without a moment's hesitation, he gave the answer Gu Dejun didn't want to hear: "You want me to love you? Fine, then I love you."
The words were right. Everything else was wrong.
He was only acting out the same old obedience, like obediently giving a coworker a farewell kiss, or obediently pretending to admire or love a target before killing them in one blow.
He needed lessons. Not just school lessons, but lessons in love, too.
The killer had ten thousand chances to escape, and Gu Dejun had ten thousand chances of being killed by his enemies. But the killer was by his side, so both possibilities had always been zero.
At twenty-five, Ling Qi had a genuine identity, a name he could use at will, and a legal husband. As far as he was concerned, he should no longer show signs of emotional detachment.
At least, not when news of Gu Dejun's death arrived. At least, not before he heard that Gu Dejun had come back from the dead.
Now that his lessons were paying off, Ling Qi began to believe in fairness.
Putting yourself in someone else's shoes is another way of saying that you have to understand their position by experiencing it yourself.
You're the one who needs lessons, Gu Dejun.
You are a Gu Dejun who came back from the dead, while the old Gu Dejun Ling Qi once knew is gone forever.
Theme: Love is a familiar story.
