Butterfly Fireworks

Next up: Night Flight West. Please add it to your reading list!

"Stubborn, sensitive sweetheart x calm, restrained older brother with an intense possessive streak"

"Living under the same roof / the clearheaded one falls hard / the aloof beauty goes mad"

Ten years ago, Zhu Jinyuan met Lu Xianqing for the first time.

At the time, her parents were planning to move abroad, and they sent her to stay temporarily with the Lu family as if she were a burden.

The enormous villa, the exquisite back garden, every place she passed along the way spoke of wealth.

Nervous and apprehensive, Zhu Jinyuan followed her mother's prompting and softly called him "Brother."

The moment their eyes met, Lu Xianqing stood up and coolly looked away.

He was even too stingy to respond, as if her arrival held no interest for him at all.

-

Ten years later, in that same garden.

On the night before she was to move away for good, rain poured from the sky. Hearing that she was about to start dating someone new, the man who came through the night seized her wrist in a fit of fury and pinned her against the wall.

His breath was hot by her ear, while the marble column at her back was hard and cold.

The damp rain soaked their faces as currents stirred in the darkness.

In her panic, Zhu Jinyuan called him "Brother." "Calm down."

Lu Xianqing laughed in furious disbelief, loosened his tie, and leaned in close. "Now you know to call me Brother. What did you call me last night?"

I will love you from far away

Keeping a distance of composure

*The male and female leads are not listed in the same household registry and are not related by blood.

*First-time romance, five-year age gap, sweet romance.

*The final quotation is from I Will Love You from Afar by Merriles.

Description of Night Flight West:

"Cold, beautiful black swan x gloomy capitalist"

"Contract relationship / reunion after a long separation / the male lead falls first"

Song Qinglan first met Shen Zhuoyan while they were at university. At the time, she was worrying about her awful family and the tuition fees that were soon due.

Shen Zhuoyan, on the other hand, had been one of the city's elite from birth. He came from a prominent family, was exceptionally handsome, and naturally enjoyed everyone's adoration and fear.

The two should never have crossed paths.

But an accident brought Song Qinglan and Shen Zhuoyan together for one night.

That very night, Shen Zhuoyan, who had always slept poorly, unexpectedly began to feel drowsy.

From then on, Song Qinglan became a regular visitor to his luxurious villa.

-

Later, Shen Zhuoyan stopped suffering from insomnia, and Song Qinglan was about to move on to the next stage of her studies.

She naturally assumed he no longer needed her help.

When she left without looking back, she thought they would never see each other again.

And yet

Three years later, snow fell heavily in Berlin. Song Qinglan was bundling up in her down jacket, about to go out shopping, when the doorbell rang sharply in her apartment.

The voice through the intercom was both familiar and strange, just like that midnight years ago when desire first stirred between them.

He had been drinking. Snow and frost clung to him, and when he stepped through the door, he brought the cold in with him.

Song Qinglan, who had been curled up asleep on the sofa, hurried to her feet. Along with her racing heartbeat came his gaze, looking down at her and lingering for a long time.

That night, Shen Zhuoyan said the same words to her that he did now.

His tone was certain and possessive. "Song Qinglan, you belong to me. You always will."

Theme: Love is written in the stars