Favoritism

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When Yan Qiao was eight, her family suffered a major upheaval, and she was sent to live with the Zhou family.

Everything about the Zhou family was wonderful. Best of all, they had Zhou Yanxi.

He was a dazzlingly gifted young genius, a gentle and courteous yet distant and aloof presence, like a flower on a high peak.

He was the unattainable dream that ran through her girlhood.

Yes, Yan Qiao had a crush on Zhou Yanxi.

She didn't know when her feelings began.

She only knew that on that rainy night,

when she saw him holding an umbrella for another girl,

she learned to feel jealous before she even understood what love was.

[2]

When Yan Qiao first arrived at the Zhou house, she would often hurt herself to get the others to pay attention to her.

The second time she sprained her ankle and nearly fell down the stairs, Zhou Yanxi saw through her little trick.

“You don't have to hurt yourself for me to look after you.” The handsome, refined boy sent the family doctor away, held her ankle, and applied the medicine himself. “Loving yourself is the first lesson I want to teach you.”

After that, Zhou Yanxi always kept her by his side. He taught her schoolwork, skiing, how to conduct herself, and how to treat others...

Yan Qiao became more and more like a member of the Zhou family, so much so that everyone assumed she would marry into the family. They just thought she would marry the fourth young master, Zhou Zhisong, who was close to her age.

And so, at the matchmaking banquet everyone tacitly understood was being held for her, the heroine disappeared.

In a dimly lit room, Yan Qiao was trapped within the narrow space of a man's embrace.

The calls of the people searching for her grew closer in the hallway, and the man before her drew nearer and nearer.

“Qiaoqiao, this is the last lesson I want to teach you.”

His gentle kisses fell on her neck and cheek, then lingered at her lips. His voice was hoarse, yet left no room for refusal. “Love me.”

[Who doesn't love the sun?

But the sun favors you.]

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A brilliant scientist x a girl whose secret crush comes true

Please note:

1. There is an age gap.

2. The romance begins after she is an adult.

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way