Tender Feelings in a Dream

Dreams of Tenderness

Ruan Meng was lost to her family and wasn't found by the Ruans until she was eight. She dressed in shabby clothes and spoke crudely, a wild child looked down on by everyone in the household.

At a family banquet hosted by the Jins, Ruan Meng accidentally knocked over a glass.

As everyone stared at her strangely, only Jin Changlin smiled and stopped in front of her, gently comforting her. "Don't be afraid. When things break, good luck is on its way."

Ruan Meng looked up at him with the eyes of a little beast.

Her stepmother reminded her from the side, "Call him Uncle."

Ruan Meng moved her lips, but after a long moment, no sound came out.

Everyone in Beicheng knew that Jin Changlin, the otherworldly scion of the Jin family, had a little niece he treasured like a jewel.

He was afraid she might fall if he held her, and afraid she might melt if he kept her in his mouth.

Everyone said Jin Changlin gave Ruan Meng anything she wanted and never knew how to refuse her.

Only Ruan Meng knew that

on the day she came of age, she confessed her feelings to him with a pounding heart, and he rejected her.

"Mengmeng, we're not right for each other." His face was cold, and his tone was firm and final.

Ruan Meng went abroad to study, deliberately keeping it secret from him.

When she returned, she was celebrated as a genius painter, dressed in bright clothes and carrying herself with confidence and grace.

Everyone said she'd gone wild overseas, with a constant stream of handsome men by her side and a reputation for being irresistible.

After a banquet,

Jin Changlin stopped her in a corner and asked in a low voice, "When did you come back? Why didn't you tell me?"

Ruan Meng looked up and asked him with a teasing smile, "Why would I go out of my way to tell you, Uncle?"

After all these years, she had finally called him by the title she'd always refused to use.

Jin Changlin felt a pain in his heart.

"Mengmeng, I'm not your uncle." He lowered his head to look at her, his love deep enough to cross mountains and seas.

In the years Ruan Meng was away, people in Beicheng's social circles all said Jin Changlin had gone mad.

The gentle, modest, courteous man had become crazed and consumed by obsession, all for her sake.

He was the one she thought of constantly, the tenderness in her dreams she didn't dare speak of. - Ruan Meng

I would make your dreams come true. - Jin Changlin

A note from the author O(∩_∩)O:

1. He is not her biological uncle. When they get together, they have no kinship or legal family relationship of any kind.

2. Age gap, sweet romance, happy ending.

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Theme: True love is priceless.