*
On the first day after Xie Zhiyi moved, she met her new deskmate in the apartment corridor.
The boy was locked out of his home, covered in blood and soaked through. When he quietly raised his eyes, a dark, bloodshot glare surged in them.
She shuddered in fright and hurried past him.
After taking a couple of steps, she turned back as if it were nothing:
“I made curry omelet rice. Would you like to try some?”
*
Everyone said Jiang Yan was aloof, gloomy, and hard to approach.
Only Xie Zhiyi knew how, when a high fever left him delirious,
he buried his face against her neck
and murmured her name with tender affection.
*
Jiang Yan had known since childhood that he lived under the same roof as a devil.
One day, when the drunken man raised his fist again,
the half-open door was pushed wide.
Xie Zhiyi stood in the corridor, like a beam of light breaking through the darkness.
She said, “Jiang Yan, come eat.”
[Reading Guide]
1. A feel-good, food-themed sweet romance about two people saving each other.
2. A frail, obsessive boy and the gentle little chef who spoils him rotten (?)
