Oriole Rain

1 Lu Xiling was an absentee sponsor who helped a little girl who had dropped out of school. Four years later, the girl got into university and asked him to help cover her travel expenses so she could move to the city to study. Lu Xiling casually passed the matter to his assistant, then promptly forgot all about it and left her to fend for herself. A month later, it suddenly came back to him. Feeling a twinge of conscience, he went to check on her. The girl in the garden turned at the sound of his voice. She was holding a freshly picked head of lettuce. The garden he’d left unused, intending to plant roses there, had somehow been turned into a vegetable patch. 2 Lu Xiling hated anything troublesome. To him, romance was the biggest hassle of all: you had to report where you were, stay in touch, and give up your freedom. Only an idiot would put up with that. Later, Xia Yuqing went away on a reporting assignment and didn’t manage to complete a single phone call with him for three days, saying she had a bad signal. He drove over in the middle of the night. When he saw Xia Yuqing’s surprised face, he said coolly, “I think you just don’t miss me.” - “My life has never been a story of dramatic ups and downs. You alone are the canyon I’ve crossed a thousand times.” - The title is from Song-dynasty poet Luo Yuan’s “Untitled”: “Autumn hues in Jiangnan in the ninth month, yellow sparrow rain, carp wind.” - Reader notes: · Updates daily at 7 a.m. HE. · Arrogant, aloof, poker-faced man × warm, ambitious little sun · Eight-year age gap / both virgins / slow burn / everyday life / mostly sweet - Note: The romance begins when both characters are adults. The cover font is free for commercial use, and the cover image is in the public domain. Theme: Education changes lives