Grant Me a Spring Morning [Rekindled Love]

#Secret Crush/Second Chance Romance/Marriage First, Love Later/Seven-Year Age Gap/Wolf-and-Rabbit Couple

Blurb:

Lin Yi's rule for having a secret crush is that the more she likes someone, the farther she stays away. She watches from afar and never takes action.

During a group tour over her first-year winter break, she meets Zhou Yuanxu. He's aloof and solitary, always in a black outdoor jacket, standing far from the lively crowd. He looks difficult to get along with.

On their last night in Lijiang, outside the hotel corridor, Lin Yi sees him leaning against a doorway, discussing work with someone.

He's focused and serious. Lin Yi can't help stopping to watch. He turns at just the wrong moment and catches her looking. She nervously ducks behind a pillar, thinking she's gotten away with it, when she hears him say with a casual, roguish smile, "Lin Yi, stop hiding. I know you're watching me."

Lin Yi is stunned. He knows her name?

A chance encounter far from home. After that, she and he maintain a friends-with-benefits relationship for two years, but it ultimately goes nowhere.

They meet again at a blind date.

To outsiders, Zhou Yuanxu is distant and indifferent, but he takes care of her at every turn and sincerely proposes marriage.

The elders present are all pleased with the match. Only Lin Yi sees through his polished facade and senses his ulterior motives.

The elders make the decision, and the marriage is arranged anyway.

Just as she thinks he's taking revenge on her for disappearing without a word and betraying him back then, his friends, who know their history, can't resist making a few sarcastic remarks about him at a gathering.

His expression turns icy. "I'm not so bored that I'd marry an ex just to get revenge."

Lin Yi, who has heard the whole conversation from nearby, is confused.

Until one day, during a thunderstorm, she's stranded outdoors while away on a field assignment.

Zhou Yuanxu, whom she hasn't seen for half a month because of an argument, searches for her at great risk, flashlight in hand and worry written all over his face.

She instinctively steps back. He comes forward and pulls her into his arms.

"Lin Yi, don't take another step back."

"And stop hiding from me."

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[Polished scoundrel boss x cold-faced but adorable mural restorer]

Inspiration: 2021.11.27, screenshot, screenshot~

|1v1 happy ending, older man, the woman has a secret crush but doesn't plan to pursue him

|The female lead has a slight hearing impairment (for a reason)

|I'll polish and revise everything before starting the story; the posted version is final

Theme: Break through your constraints and be yourself!