Stealing Fragrance

【Follow my next story, “Her Princess Consort Refuses to Share Her Bed”】 Younger woman / guarded, devoted, and scheming top VS thoughtful, gentle, and accepting bottom / three-year age gap / staying together / unrelated / rekindled love Tong Zhi is a poor little soul whose father doesn’t care for her and whose mother doesn’t love her. Lin Jia is a little nobody with no parents to raise her. Their grandmother finds the two miserable girls and raises them by hand. They grow up into sisters everyone envies. Tong Zhi thinks she and Lin Jia will be together for the rest of their lives, going from strangers to sisters to lovers. She can’t wait to grow up. She looks forward to a grand confession after the college entrance exams, traveling across the country after graduation, and seeing Lin Jia wear the wedding dress she designed herself. Instead, Lin Jia leaves without a word. Tong Zhi takes her home from the mud, but Lin Jia abandons her halfway down the road. After ten years of depending on each other, this is how it ends. Tong Zhi grits her teeth in fury. If they ever meet again, she’ll make that heartless woman pay! And she really does look good… Seven years later, among all the model résumés, Tong Zhi recognizes Lin Jia at a glance. She looks just as she did the first time Tong Zhi saw her beneath the gardenia tree. So beautiful it hurts. * Their reunion seven years later isn’t an accident or coincidence. It’s the result of Lin Jia’s painstaking scheming. For seven years, guilt has gnawed at her every day since she left without a word. She warned herself that she’d only look one more time, that she was only keeping a childhood promise, that she’d come to make amends… But all those self-deceiving warnings vanish the moment she sees Tong Zhi. She once held this stolen fragrance close to her heart, then cast it into the mud. But after all these years, the flowers still smell the same, and this time she doesn’t plan to let go. Theme: Even in the deepest shadows, wildflowers can still release their secret fragrance