Timid, delicate flower x roguish, devoted bad boy
Ten-year age gap
1
She ran into Huo Zhongyan again in a dimly lit, hazy club.
White smoke swirled through the air, and the pungent smell of nicotine made Feng Ni's eyes turn red. Her boyfriend's gang of friends egged her on, demanding that she get up and sing a song.
Under their scrutinizing and mocking stares, her face turned deathly pale. Her nails dug into her palms as she slowly rose to her feet.
At that moment, the click of a metal lighter sounded from the shadows. Someone gasped, and Feng Ni instinctively looked over.
In the flickering light, her gaze collided without warning with a pair of shadowed eyes.
Her boyfriend's expression changed drastically. He stood up and respectfully called out, "Brother Yan."
She never did sing that night. Feng Ni was distracted the whole time.
When the party ended, rain was pattering outside. By chance, she felt a lighter on the sofa beneath her, still warm from the man's touch. As if possessed, she chased after him.
Rain poured down. The empty road was pitch-black, with no one in sight. Feng Ni froze for a moment, then turned away in disappointment, the cold metal clenched in her hand.
The next second, headlights suddenly blazed in the distance, drawing closer and closer.
The car window lowered in front of her. The man glanced at her coolly. "Get in."
2
After Huo Zhongyan came to her rescue several times, Feng Ni kept her feelings well hidden. Naturally, she assumed that all his concern for her was simply out of consideration for her boyfriend.
It wasn't until a twist of fate brought them together for one chaotic night that everything began to spiral out of control.
"Why are you hiding?"
People came and went in the living room downstairs, and her boyfriend was chatting and laughing with the guests. In the shadows by the stairs, the man wrapped his arms around her slender waist from behind. His fingers pinched the back of her neck, and he breathed a mocking laugh against the reddened mark behind her ear. "Let him see."
The day he deliberately made Feng Ni catch her boyfriend cheating, Huo Zhongyan watched her eyes turn red. The smile on his lips slowly disappeared. He grabbed her chin with a cold expression and lowered his head to kiss the tears at the corners of her eyes.
"Sweetheart, have you forgotten something again?"
"You're mine."
"Your tears are for me alone."
3
Much later, she asked him, "Why did you turn back that night?"
"At the time, there were two little people arguing in my head."
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"One said, 'Turn back and take her with you.'"
"And what did the other one say?"
His voice was low. "The other said, 'Sure, sure.'"
There had been no twist of fate. From the first moment he saw her, he had already fallen deeply in love.
* The female lead and the second male lead are only nominally boyfriend and girlfriend.
* The female lead's perspective: an unrequited love comes true. The male lead's perspective: stealing his younger brother's girl.
Theme: The universe may be vast, but you are my universe
