Eden on Earth

"I want to tell you how fiercely I loved you in all the places you couldn't see.", Shen Sinan

1. When He Luna was twelve, she found an older brother on the road. He was handsome and talented, and cared for her in every way. Everyone envied her.

Until one day, a director of the Shen Group came to their door in person and took her brother away.

2. If you asked about the hottest campus gossip at Xinze University, it was the story of Shen Sinan, the celibate student council president, and He Luna, the campus goddess. Unfortunately, it lasted less than a year before fizzling out.

A few years later, someone asked on Zhihu: "What's a secret you have?"

One anonymous comment became hugely popular: "I'm dating my brother. His name is Shen Sinan. Yes, the Shen Sinan you all know."

Netizens tracked down the person behind the account: a beautiful photographer who graduated from a prestigious university and became famous for her stunning looks, He Luna.

Weibo exploded.

He Luna responded calmly: "Just fishing for attention. It's a lie."

Not long after the gossip died down, someone dug up another detail: the red ribbon Shen Sinan had worn around his wrist for years bore a striking resemblance to the abundant use of red in He Luna's work.

What no one expected was that Shen Sinan, the usually low-profile business tycoon whom the media described as "decisive and coolly abstinent, having quelled a family feud in just six months," liked the Weibo post exposing the rumor.

It couldn't have been an accidental like. Young Master Shen was busy with work and didn't even get a vacation all year. How could he possibly have time to browse gossip?

Weibo exploded again, and then the campus gossip from years ago resurfaced. The gossip fans were having the time of their lives.

That night, Shen Sinan personally reposted He Luna's clarification, adding: "Baby, when will I get official status?"

Weibo crashed.

3. Everyone thought Shen Sinan was cool and self-possessed, distant and abstinent. Only He Luna had seen his other side.

When he got jealous, he would lean against her neck, eyes red, and plead coquettishly, "Just comfort me and I won't be angry anymore."

She had also seen how possessive and tender he could be.

That day, he pushed her into a cramped, empty classroom with a cold expression.

His scorching breath brushed aside her soft hair. Looking down, he rubbed her delicate fingers and sighed almost inaudibly. "You ungrateful little thing. I've spoiled you for so many years, and this is how you repay me?"

4. On a winter night when Shen Sinan was fourteen, he was in a car accident and lost his memory. The first thing he saw when he woke up was a girl crouching in front of him.

She smiled and held out her hand. "Brother A Si, come with me. I'll take you home."

She smiled, and he really did go with her.

What He Luna didn't know was this:

The winter he left her, Shen Sinan climbed the Holy Mountain and kowtowed 108 times.

There were 108 steps, from the morning dew to the midnight dawn. For three whole days, he didn't drink a drop of water.

The mountain was covered in white snow, cold to the bone. Just like when they first met, he was a pitiful mess, bright red blood seeping into the snow. He knelt for a long time before the Buddhist shrine and made a vow, traveling across mountains and rivers, all to say one thing to the girl he loved: "I'm back, Xiao Nan."

"I thought there was nothing left for me to lose. It wasn't until the day I left her that I realized if I could keep only one thing in this world, even if my bones and teeth were shattered and I had to swallow my own blood, I would pay any price. All I want is for Xiao Nan to be safe and healthy, and to stay by my side forever."

From the moment he first saw her, he knew he would love her for a lifetime.

She was his faith, his goddess, his earthly Eden, the sanctuary he would crawl toward despite being covered in wounds.

Wherever she was, that was home.

After wildfires have swept across the land through countless springs, you are still more beautiful than Eden

First blurb version: February 27, 2021.

A rekindled romance / secret marriage / flashbacks / devoted, cool, abstinent, cunning, domineering male lead with a strong possessive streak who gets jealous easily and spoils the heroine endlessly / the heroine only needs to be beautiful / a sweet romance

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Theme: Love