I Want You to Love Me

When she was five, Tong Nian cried and clung to the longevity lock Bai Yuqing had given her as she asked her mother, "When I grow up, can I marry Auntie Bai?"

Her mother kicked her straight into kindergarten. "You still have to go to school even if you marry Auntie Bai right now!"

At fifteen, Tong Nian was still wearing the longevity lock. She wheedled and bargained with her mother: "If I come first in the city, can I go to Auntie Bai's house for the summer?"

At eighteen, now in college and still wearing the longevity lock, Tong Nian finally got her wish and moved in with Bai Yuqing.

After helping her settle in, Bai Yuqing asked, "Niannian, is there anything else you need?"

Tong Nian edged closer. "I want you to love me."

A seemingly gentle but actually cold and withdrawn older woman x a devoted puppy who knows exactly how to act cute.

Bonus scene:

After they get together, Tong Nian brings Bai Yuqing home.

Tong Nian, Bai Yuqing, and her mother stare at one another.

After a moment, Tong Nian tentatively says, "Sister Qi?"

Qi Qin: "..."

So after raising her for eighteen years, I went and raised myself a little sister?!

Theme: Maybe in a relationship, you should talk more and make fewer assumptions.