The Land of Dawn and Dusk

Word had it that campus belle Lin Xiangwan had turned down the wealthy music department heartthrob and fallen for an older man from outside the university.

The gossip spread like wildfire, and a photo of the man was posted on the school forum.

In the photo, the man looked refined and stern, with a straight posture and long legs. He wore an Air Force uniform with two bars and one star, his expression detached and haughty, as if he looked down on everyone.

Though the post was deleted within a day, the story still became common knowledge.

A month later, news spread that the campus belle had been dumped.

*

Lin Xiangwan had been proud and willful since childhood. Whatever caught her eye, she wanted for herself.

At twenty, she met the first man she ever liked and pursued him boldly without hesitation.

Unfortunately, she ran into a brick wall.

She pursued Gu Baizhou relentlessly for a month, but he remained as cold as ice, impossible to warm up.

Lin Xiangwan suddenly decided it wasn't worth it and signed up for a group trip abroad.

Basking in the foreign sea breeze, she forgot all about that youthful flutter of her heart.

On the day she returned home, she chatted happily with the man seated beside her on the plane. They walked out of the terminal together, and she completely ignored Gu Baizhou, whom she ran into outside the arrivals gate.

But he followed her. "Lin Xiangwan, who taught you to start something and then abandon it?"

Lin Xiangwan lifted her sunglasses, her phoenix eyes turning to him. She looked as languid and detached as he had back then. "Mr. Gu, we're both adults. Some things shouldn't be taken too seriously."

As she spoke, she linked arms with the stranger. "Allow me to introduce my eightieth suitor."

*

Lin Xiangwan returned from her trip abroad to heal her broken heart.

The campus belle and heiress had suffered her first romantic setback, and everyone around her was careful not to bring it up.

That was, until Christmas Eve, when a black Bentley pulled up beneath her dormitory.

The man stepped out of the driver's seat. It was unmistakably the face that had taken the school forum by storm a while ago.

The major who was rumored to have turned Lin Xiangwan down walked up to her with a bouquet of bright red roses. His once-cold eyes were full of tenderness. "Wanwan, I've come to be your eighty-first."

P.S.:

She pursues him first, then he pursues her.

Six-year age gap.

The male lead has an adopted daughter, who will be returned to her biological parents.

Theme: Love the motherland and love the people.