◎Sensitive, slow-to-warm, timid one-legged white rabbit × rebellious, unruly, wild and troubled beast
◎Bittersweet youth | Push and pull, healing | Reunion after years apart
[Blurb]
1.
When He Ling was fifteen, she was sent to live with one of her father's former comrades.
The uncle had a son her age.
When they first met, the boy had just returned from a trip. His skin was tanned a deep wheat color, and his eyes were heavy with a wild, weary look.
His gaze at her was cold and untamed, like wind sweeping over a wasteland without leaving a trace.
"So you're the one staying at my house?"
He Ling thought Li Senqing disliked her, so she avoided him at school and at home.
Until one day, in front of many classmates, he called her to the classroom door, his tone languid.
"My mom says you should come home early for dinner on Friday."
2.
The day he fought for her, a light rain was falling.
Li Senqing pinned the other person to the ground and beat him. Rain and blood mingled together.
In the dean's office, the director slapped the desk. "Apologize, now!"
"No."
"You beat him up like that and still won't apologize?!"
"He deserved it." He sneered, his face full of ferocity and defiance.
After hearing what had happened, she waited outside the dean's office, clutching a bandage tightly in her hand.
When Li Senqing came out, He Ling saw the bruise at the corner of his mouth and burst into tears.
He said it didn't hurt, but she felt as if she were the one in pain.
3.
Years later, He Ling went to a ski resort with a friend and saw Li Senqing leading a little girl by the hand.
The man noticed her, lowered his mask, and smiled as he said, "Long time no see."
Looking into his pitch-black eyes, she remembered the ski resort that winter break years ago:
Snow billowed behind him, and her heartbeat was so loud she thought the whole mountain could hear it.
This time, it was Li Senqing who clung to He Ling and refused to let go.
He was so pathetically, desperately in love that he wanted to be her dog. Trembling all over, he kissed her, his voice hoarse.
"Love me one more time. Please."
[Reading Guide]
① One-on-one romance, both leads' first time, happy ending
② The heroine lost a leg in a car accident and wears a mechanical prosthesis
③ School setting in the first half, urban setting in the latter half
④ The leads are imperfect. The heroine is genuinely sensitive and melodramatic at first, while the hero really is rebellious and considers himself above everyone else. But both of them grow over time.
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★ No other content warnings
★ Not based on real people
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☆ First draft of the blurb saved on 2021.07.16
☆ The blurb may be slightly revised later
Premise: Healing each other and finding the courage to love