When Song Chu was seven, her father remarried. Auntie Li brought along a quiet, stiff little boy.
Song's father told her to call him Big Brother.
Song Chu timidly gazed at Li Yu, who was three years older and a head taller, and softly called him Big Brother.
Li Yu said nothing and didn't answer.
After their families blended, Song Chu enjoyed a happy life. She was cherished as she grew up, and the only person she feared at home was Li Yu.
He was always expressionless, cold in both manner and speech, with a maturity and aloofness beyond his years.
Later, an accident took the lives of Song's father and Auntie Li in a car crash. The two children became orphans nobody wanted.
Song Chu cried until she fainted and burned with a high fever that wouldn't go down.
On the night before she was to be sent to an orphanage, through tear-blurred eyes she saw a thin, stiff figure by her bedside. Just as she had the first time they met, she called him Big Brother.
The male lead pressed his lips together and fell silent for a long while. "Stay here. From now on, I'll take care of you."
Through all the days and nights they depended on each other, the male lead was like a brother and a father to her, raising Song Chu until she went to university.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would watch her graduate, find a job, get married, have children, and start a family. Then he would have done right by Uncle Song.
Song Chu thought that, if she could, she would remain his little burden for the rest of her life.
Who says it's winter now?
When you are by my side, I feel the flowers blooming, the birds singing, and the cicadas calling. - Jane Eyre
Theme: Growing wild and free.
