When You're on the Other Side of the Mountains

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For the first twenty-nine and a half years of Huo Chenghuan’s life, he remained loyal, steadfast, detached from the world, and free of desire.

Then he tasted the pleasures of the mortal world.

The more he held back, the more fiercely his feelings surged.

The closer he came, the deeper he fell.

He gave that girl nine years of peace, but in the tenth year, he began to feel an undeniable desire for her.

The passionate love he’d struggled with all his might to restrain broke through the prison of taboo when he said, “I don’t like you.” It tore at him like flesh and blood, growing wildly without restraint.

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Years later, Liang Yin still remembered what Huo Chenghuan had looked like when they first met.

Tall and lean, a big brother with a youthful air. A brand-new hearing aid in his left ear, his injuries not yet healed, he had traveled a thousand miles to find her.

He told her to call him Uncle.

She had just lost her family and suffered a devastating blow, both physically and emotionally. It took her years to speak her first words: “Brother.”

As she grew up, she kept her girlish feelings hidden, often picking arguments with him on purpose and being willful. She also liked to take out his hearing aid and ramble, asking all sorts of strange questions, such as

“Have you ever been in love?”

“Have you ever kissed anyone?”

“Have you ever done that with anyone?”

He would always look at her without saying a word.

It wasn’t until much later, after they had already lost themselves in each other again and again, that she lay in his arms and took out his hearing aid once more, saying things she normally wouldn’t. Only then did the man kiss the corner of her eye and reveal a tenderness that had never before taken root in his heart. “Yinyin, I can read lips.”

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Liang Yin had weathered the chaos of life alone.

Later, that man crossed mountains and rivers to reach her, and knocked on her door through wind and snow.

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Age gap / unspoken tension / coming of age / healing / HE

Restrained, tough hero x passionate young woman

Before the heroine came of age, the hero had no feelings for her whatsoever, and there was nothing romantic between them. She was only fostered in his home, not adopted, and they were not on the same household register.

The title comes from Zhang Zhenyue’s “Missing You Is a Disease.”

2022/3/14

Please add my next book, So Many People in This World, to your favorites.

After his final mission, Xie Nanzhou was seriously wounded. When he woke up, he had lost all his memories and become the most handsome forest ranger in the small border town and the surrounding villages.

One day, a woman came to town. She was beautiful and cold, and didn’t like to talk.

Xie Nanzhou soon became entangled with her.

That night, Xie Nanzhou stroked her damp hair. “Did we know each other before?”

“I feel like I’ve slept with you.”

First love as teenagers / rekindled romance / adult couple / slow life in a small town

Asexual x full of hormones

Theme: A story about love and dreams, faith and growing up