Long Planned

[This is expected to be a marry-first, love-later story with the uncle! The basic premise will stay the same! Some parts of the blurb may be changed later!]

Ye Ying and Yu Zhuowen grew up together. Yu Zhuowen was aloof and quiet, while Ye Ying was lively and energetic. Everyone around them said they were perfect for each other, and Ye Ying thought so too. Ever since she was little, she had loved following Yu Zhuowen around.

On the day they came of age, Ye Ying took the initiative and asked him to date her. The usually aloof young man looked as calm as ever. Just as Ye Ying thought he was going to turn her down, he nodded and said, "Okay."

From then on, the two dated for five years. But as time passed, Ye Ying gradually realized that Yu Zhuowen loved her far less than she loved him. Or maybe he never liked her all that much at all.

She learned to make desserts, but he said he didn't like sweets.

On their 300th day anniversary, she waited all day for a surprise, only for him to show up drunk and say the next morning, "I forgot."

She was in a minor car accident and taken to the hospital with a slight fracture in her leg. When she called him, he said, "Stop making a fuss."

At some point, Ye Ying began to lose faith in Yu Zhuowen, and that disappointment kept piling up over time.

At last, she broke up with him and chose to take him out of her life.

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Yu Zhuowen thought Ye Ying was making a fuss again when she said she'd hurt her leg. In his mind, she was always doing this, threatening him with trivial excuses to make him come back and keep her company.

He'd fall for it once or twice, but after it happened so many times, he no longer wanted to indulge her.

He never imagined that this time it was real.

When he hurried to the hospital, he saw his usually busier-than-anyone uncle sitting beside Ye Ying's hospital bed. His expression was gentle, but the moment he saw Yu Zhuowen, his face turned stern.

The man exuded the authority of someone accustomed to giving orders. His voice was reproachful: "How could you leave Yingying alone in the hospital?"

Yu Zhuowen wanted to argue, but he didn't dare...

He thought it was all just a coincidence.

Until one day after breaking up with Ye Ying, he went to see her while drunk, hoping to get back together, and saw his uncle walking out of Ye Ying's house in black silk pajamas, carrying a bag of trash.

When the man saw him, he smiled as warmly as ever. "Here to see Yingying? She just fell asleep, so this might not be a good time."

At that moment, Yu Zhuowen was struck by lightning.

After breaking up with Yu Zhuowen, Ye Ying moved out and got a place of her own. She never expected a familiar figure to emerge from the two-story Western-style house across the street on moving day.

She exclaimed, "Uncle?"

The man smiled faintly, but the light in his eyes was as deep as a whirlpool. "What a coincidence."

Later, after too many such coincidences, Ye Ying let the alcohol give her courage, grabbed the man's collar, and stopped calling him Uncle, as she always did. She called him by his name and asked, "Yu Siwen! Are you into me?"

The man was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled, sending her heart aflutter. "You found out?"

Ye Ying: ?

[You are both my carefully plotted scheme and my long-planned desire]

[However spoiled you may be, being able to indulge you is my good fortune]

[A shrewd, calculating fox of a man X a clever, adorable little fox]

[Seven-year age gap]

[The ex who can't win her back faces a long road to redemption. The uncle takes his place.]

[Nothing special. I just suddenly wanted to write melodrama!]

[Cover art thanks to the wonderful Xiao Xiong Xin Jiang!]

Theme: There is always someone whose tenderness is meant for you