First Snowfall at the Harbor

Unrequited Love Comes True | A Story of Healing

[Blurb]:

The day the first snowflake fell over Laizhou Harbor, the head of the research institute personally selected Xu Wenyan to take on an intern. Everyone was shocked, because they all knew Professor Xu never took interns.

Xu Wenyan was shocked, too. He asked the director if some important person needed his personal care.

The director said, “She's a pampered little princess.”

“I don't know what got into her, but she insists on coming to this cold, harsh coast to intern in marine biology. Dean Yun isn't comfortable with it, so she specifically asked you to mentor her, Old Xu.”

“...”

*

Everyone at the Laizhou Marine Research Institute knew Professor Xu hated taking on clueless, spoiled interns.

But they saw the usually distant Professor Xu patiently show the delicate little intern how to use precision instruments, one step at a time, and buy her her favorite Gu Lin Duo drink.

They also saw him carry the young woman to his room on every homesick night when she cried until her eyes were wet with tears. Then he would go out to his car alone and quietly sleep there through the subzero wind all night.

On the day they parted, with spring flowers in bloom, Yun Shu tugged at Xu Wenyan's white lab coat and asked if he would ever visit the city where she was going to study.

Xu Wenyan simply packed the trunk full of her favorite Gu Lin Duo drinks. Her driver was waiting. He ruffled her hair.

“Don't drink it so cold anymore.”

*

Bound by a family-arranged marriage, Yun Shu was forced to get engaged.

She made one last call to the number that had never rung again. Maybe that memory had long since become just a tiny, insignificant drop in the ocean of that man's life.

On the day of her engagement, the doors suddenly burst open. Xu Wenyan, dressed in black, rushed in and took Yun Shu away in the middle of the ceremony.

His large hand gripped her waist beneath her qipao, as if he meant to crush her and fuse her into his very bones.

Yun Shu's eyes reddened.

“Didn't you say you didn't want me anymore? Then what is this supposed to mean?”

The man who had always kept everything carefully within bounds brushed his thumb over the corner of her eye, then suddenly lowered his head and kissed her.

“I'm stealing you away.”

Xu Wenyan, rarely losing control, said:

“I used to think I wasn't good enough for you, so I thought that as long as you were happy, that was enough for me.”

“Then I realized that after caring for you for so long, I still couldn't bring myself to”

“hand you over to someone else.”

Gentle x Sensitive

Professor x Heiress

Note:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first time, happy ending. Ten-year age gap.

2. The male lead is good-tempered, but has a possessive streak deep down. He keeps himself in check at first, but later loses control, goes mad with jealousy, and breaks every boundary.

Theme: Peace and love, growing together.