The Spring Breeze Doesn't Understand My Heart

Shao Xue had been in love with her best friend's uncle for a long time. He was the imperial tutor, handsome and dignified, gentle and refined, the ideal man in the eyes of every woman in the capital.

She was just an insignificant young girl.

She never dared confess how she felt.

After an accident injured her eyes, she was sent to a country estate to recuperate.

There was a mute old woman at the estate. Keeping her feelings bottled up was too hard, and she couldn't help telling the old woman about the pain of her unrequited love:

How she pretended to ask him for help with her studies just to get closer to him, and how she had gone to great lengths to find a rare book, only to send it to him under her friend's name.

When her uncle was about to get engaged, she was dying of sadness but still had to act delighted and congratulate him.

Later, when the engagement fell through, she hid under the covers and laughed with glee, then couldn't help getting angry: Her uncle was so wonderful, how could anyone fail to appreciate him?

And so on and so forth...

When the bandages over her eyes were removed, the face she saw before her was her uncle's, wearing an unreadable smile.

Shao Xue: ⊙▽⊙

When Song Muzhou first met Shao Xue, the girl's eyes were bright, and her gaze kept drifting toward him. Whenever he looked her way, though, she would casually turn around and loudly chat with his niece.

He knew then that the girl felt something special for him.

They were of different generations, and he couldn't bring himself to point it out. He simply cared for the girl's pride without letting on, quietly waiting for her innocent crush to pass.

Even when he heard her passionate "confession," he merely smiled and let it go.

Later, she gradually faded from his life and began looking at someone else with those bright eyes.

Song Muzhou suddenly realized that at some point, his gaze had begun following Shao Xue of its own accord.

He couldn't escape or hide from it. The more he suppressed it, the more his dark possessiveness spread uncontrollably.

So he decided to go mad just once and make her look only at him again.

[One-on-one, an old house catches fire, eight-year age gap]

Theme: Love and growth