12-year age gap | 18 vs. 30 | No blood relation
Ji Miao's family is hit by an unexpected crisis, and her two mothers temporarily send her to stay with her great-aunt in the countryside.
But when she arrives with bags and bundles of luggage, the person who opens the door isn't the elderly woman she expected. Instead, she sees a mature, strikingly beautiful face.
Ji Miao stares, wondering if her great-aunt could really be so young.
The woman asks, "Are you Ji Miao? My mother went traveling. I'm Qin Zhiwei. You can call me Auntie."
Her voice is cool, her tone utterly serious.
Ji Miao instinctively walks into the house more quietly.
*
Living under the same roof as Qin Zhiwei, Ji Miao is careful and cautious.
Qin Zhiwei keeps an extremely regular schedule, so Ji Miao starts going to bed early and getting up early too.
Qin Zhiwei dislikes noise, so Ji Miao even keeps her voice down when she talks in her sleep.
Qin Zhiwei is a neat freak, so Ji Miao seals away her pheromones beneath layer after layer of suppressor patches.
But things taken to extremes can backfire. Ji Miao's heat comes on like a waterfall in full spate. She thinks the cold woman will throw her out, but through her blurred vision, she sees a pale ankle stepping closer, one step at a time.
The woman's breath brushes her ear, her heartbeat pounding like a drum urging her on. Gathering her courage, Ji Miao asks, "Why?"
But she gets no answer.
*
Ji Miao thinks this relationship will have to remain hidden in the dark forever, and that she is nothing more than a passing novelty in the woman's life.
She stops trying to hold on, packs her things, and decides to move out.
But on the night she plans to stay out
Someone drags her into the master bedroom. A pale ankle rests on her shoulder, and the woman, usually so calm and even-tempered, looks at her with a trace of anger. "Ji Miao, when you climbed into this bed every night and held me while you cried, why didn't you ask why?"
🧡 Still an Alpha with no attachments
🧡 There's a short, fake "chasing-the-wife-to-the-crematorium" arc in the middle. Overall, it's sweet, then bittersweet, then sweet again.
Theme: Love is instinct
