Name: When the Glacier Begins to Warm
Author: Qin Huaizhou

Synopsis

As Lin Zhiyang's lover, she is forbidden from getting too close. After knowing the professor for a year, all she knows is the exact location of a few moles on her body.

She tries to melt a glacier, only to have the woman walk right past her as if she doesn't exist on the day she carefully prepared to confess.

So when Lin Zhiyang says, “Let's break up,” Yu Che's deathly pale face makes those words seem strangely sweet, as though they had ever been a proper couple.

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Yu Che doesn't dare underestimate Lin Zhiyang's hold on her. Every rejection is an act of self-torture.

No one knows how much courage it takes for a glacier to approach the warm sun. Desperate to draw warmth from her, Yu Che drinks poison to quench her thirst. She asks for no deep love, only for it to last.

After Lin Zhiyang leaves, the yearlong dream of anxious longing and intoxicated joy collapses in an instant. At last, Yu Che understands that deep love cannot be hidden.

*

“You come into this world once. You must see the sun, and walk down the street with the one you love.”

Theme: Be brave enough to face love itself, and the sweetness and hardships it brings.

Other names

Thawing the GlacierEnglish name

Stats

90Chapters

110.9kFavorites

138.4kClicks per chapter

9.7Score

65.4kNutrient gifts

Honours

68Total Score · Baihe (GL)

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