Mature, gentle heroine x devoted, disabled puppy | Secret love comes true | Childhood friends
At thirty, with both her marriage and career at a low point, He Jiayu stepped away from her day-to-day life as a drifter in Beijing and decided to return to her hometown for a while.
The weather there was pleasant, and life moved at a slower pace. She could always count on her mom's homemade stuffed pancakes, and there was also her friendly young neighbor and an old classmate she hadn't seen in years. She decided to stay.
Everything about her new life was wonderful, except for the intense yet restrained look in her young neighbor's eyes whenever he saw her.
Zhou You had loved the girl next door since childhood. He fought hard to catch up, but six years separated them, along with the prosthetic on his left leg: a chasm he could never cross. So he watched He Jiayu go away to college, fall in love and get married, and settle in Beijing, and all he could do was wish her well.
Then one day, she suddenly came back.
The love he'd buried in his heart began to bloom again, and Zhou You wanted to try one more time.
Love is impossible to control. It spills out from every corner of life, impossible to hide.
He Jiayu never expected that the boy next door, who had lost a leg in a car accident as a child, would cross the muddy ground and reach out to her, expressing through his actions a secret love that had grown for years.
Reader advisory:
1. Mature, gentle heroine x devoted, insecure puppy; older woman-younger man romance, six-year age gap, he falls first and pursues her.
2. The male lead is disabled and wears a prosthetic left leg. The heroine is not a virgin. She has dated and divorced, but has no children. The male lead is completely chaste, in body and soul, from beginning to end.
3. A sweet, everyday romance focused on feelings.
4. There are chapters in reserve. If you like it, please add it to your favorites!
Theme: Life is complicated and unpredictable, so always hold on to hope
