[Foster care/pseudo-uncle/nephew/guiding lover]
When she was sixteen years old, Cheng Wan was adopted by the Lin family and met her uncle Lin Xubai in a wheelchair for the first time.
He was gentle and distant, and the thing he said most to her was: "Study hard."
The secret of youth needs to find an outlet - she has a pen pal she has known for many years, who will accompany her through the uneasiness of being dependent on others, the confusion of adolescence, and those unspeakable worries.
She asked him again and again: "When can we meet?"
But he always replied with the same sentence: "The time has not yet come."
Until that rainy night, she accidentally discovered that Lin Xubai's handwriting on the review document was exactly the same as the letter paper she treasured.
She began to doubt, began to test, and even wanted to catch a flash of panic in his always perfect calmness.
"Why did you lie to me?"
"You are still young and can't tell the difference between dependence and liking."
Cheng Wan decided to prove that he had grown up.
She accepted the date from her senior, gave her first kiss under the moonlight, and then deliberately let Lin Xubai see it.
That night, the man who had always been calm and self-possessed trapped her in front of her, breathing hotly:
"Wanwan, do you have to force me like this?"
Later, Cheng Wan understood that he didn't see her not because he didn't love her, but because he loved her too much——
He loves her so much that he dare not waste her years as an elder, but is so paranoid that he cannot tolerate her belonging to anyone.
——Love is restraint and courage.
1V1, 8 years age difference, double C
The heroine's growth type, from dependence to independence
2025.12.28
Intention: Love is restraint and courage
