[Childhood friends, secret love made real, young lady and bodyguard]
Optimistic, resilient heiress x devoted, loyal bodyguard
Chu Shengle always thought Shuang Chen disliked her. He was her personal bodyguard, yet he was always deliberately keeping his distance.
But when she started having nightmares day and night after killing her kidnappers in self-defense, Shuang Chen told her, "If anyone wants to hurt you, they'll have to kill me first."
Because of those words, she asked Shuang Chen to continue south with her. Who knew that after hesitating for a second, he would actually agree!
After a month on the road, their travel money was running low. All she could do was scrape together a living with Shuang Chen in Qingzhu City, working hard for every penny while enduring other people's harassment. Chu Shengle was miserable, but for her mother's sake, she put up with it all.
During their time in Qingzhu City, Shuang Chen changed a lot. He smiled more and stopped deliberately keeping his distance. His constant care and concern told her that maybe he didn't dislike her after all.
So she decided that once she found a doctor and medicine and returned home, she'd ask her father to give Shuang Chen a raise!
Later, she found the doctor and medicine, but Shuang Chen also found his birth parents here.
He refused to return to Qingcheng with her. He said he'd come find her, but three years passed, and aside from sending some things to the Chu residence, he never once came to see her.
He had clearly been to Qingcheng and even entered the Chu residence. So why hadn't he come to see her? Did he really not like her?
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Shuang Chen went to retrieve the young lady who had run away from home without permission.
When he saw her haunted by nightmares because she had killed someone, for the first time he showed her his feelings for her.
A bodyguard too poor to produce even a hundred taels of silver himself had no right to fall in love with a young lady raised in luxury.
If his feelings were exposed, he wouldn't even be worthy of standing behind her and protecting her.
So Chu Shengle never knew that when she looked at Shuang Chen with hopeful eyes and asked him to continue south with her to search for medicine, the second he stood silent wasn't because he was hesitating. He was wondering how to tell her that he was willing to do anything for her.
Theme: You have to be brave!
