A proud young lady who says one thing but means another x a gentle, scheming, devoted man
Among my parents' keepsakes, there were two things: me, and him.
Wen Ying's diary.
[Blurb]
Fifteen years ago, Wen Ying, doted on by everyone, went with her parents to the mountains to paint from nature. There she met the male lead, who lived with his grandmother. Innocently holding out a flower, she asked if he was like her and had skipped class to play in the fields because he didn't like school. He froze, then shook his head and said his family couldn't afford to send him to school.
The next day, Wen Ying pointed at the flowers on the mountain and said, "If you pick me some flowers, I'll help you go to school."
Wen Ying's parents quickly agreed to sponsor him. At his grandmother's request, they looked out at the endless mountains and gave him the name Lin Duchuan.
At fifteen, Lin Duchuan came as promised. They vowed to head together toward a better future.
At eighteen, Wen Ying abruptly broke their promise and stayed behind in Yuncheng alone.
Four years later, Wen Ying accidentally drowned. She transmigrated into a cat and reunited in the snow with Lin Duchuan, who was supposed to be far away in Jingzhou.
Oh my god, what do you do when your ex-boyfriend adopts you?
A person and a cat huddled in a clean, warm little home, keeping each other company through the winter.
During a break in his gaming livestream, Lin Duchuan held Wen Ying and answered a fan's question.
Lin Duchuan: "I came back to Yuncheng because the person I love most is here. I want to get back together with my first love."
Wen Ying's eyes widened in shock: "!"
Lin Duchuan: "It was my fault we broke up back then."
Wen Ying: "!"
When her identity as a cat demon was exposed, Wen Ying thought Lin Duchuan would fear and despise her, a person who had died and come back to life as a cat demon. But Lin Duchuan knew that reuniting with her was the miracle he'd been waiting for all along, in the present and in the past.
Lin Duchuan held her gently, unable to stop his tears. "Don't leave me again."
"Aren't you afraid?"
"I'm only afraid you don't love me."
Many years later, Lin Duchuan was walking by the lake hand in hand with Wen Ying when his eyes suddenly grew wet. Big tears fell onto the back of her hand.
Wen Ying looked up, held out a flower, and wiped away his tears, her smile radiant.
"Lin Duchuan, I never wanted to die. I just happened to be unable to survive that day."
Even in her most painful moments, she had never thought of it.
Because she believed that the warm winter meant for her would arrive one day, just as promised.
Theme: Spreading warmth
