Night Waves Dream of Spring

Yan Luosheng had a twin brother named Yan Tingchu, who had been frail and sickly since childhood. The doctor said he wouldn't live past twenty.

A wandering Taoist said that if they took in a boy with the same birth date and hour, he could take the illness and bad luck meant for Yan Luosheng's brother, ensuring he stayed healthy from then on.

So the little beggar Yan Heng came to the Yan family. Unfortunately, fate had other plans. On Yan Tingchu's thirteenth birthday, he accidentally fell into a lotus pond and drowned. From then on, everyone in the Yan family despised Yan Heng as a jinx, and he was treated worse than a dog or a pig.

Yan Luosheng didn't like him either. He never spoke, and his dark eyes were like a wolf lying in wait in the night, as if he might suddenly leap up and bite someone. He was so sinister that he frightened people.

Her mother planned to send him away, but Yan Luosheng fought to stop her.

For a whole month, Yan Luosheng had been haunted by a nightmare of the Yan family being massacred. Yan Heng was the culprit, so how could she let this wolf go back into the mountains and turn on the Yan family?

He had to die at the Yan estate!

She wanted to starve Yan Heng to death, but when she saw him give his only bun to a stray dog, she couldn't bring herself to do it.

She wanted to freeze Yan Heng to death, but when he risked his life to save her after she fell into the water in winter, she couldn't bring herself to do that either.

Yan Luosheng: Forget it. If I guide him properly from now on, maybe he can turn over a new leaf.

The next day, Yan Heng finally woke up after running a high fever from saving her. Yan Luosheng snapped at him without holding back: "With a body as weak as yours, you still had the nerve to save me? If you'd frozen to death, nobody would even have buried you!"

But he smiled with disarming sincerity. "I didn't think that much at the time."

The boy's gaze as he looked at Yan Luosheng was full of deceit and malice.

He was the one who'd pushed her into the water, and he was the one who'd saved her. He was gambling that Yan Luosheng was the softest-hearted person in the Yan family, gambling that he could win her pity.

The moment he opened his eyes and saw her, he knew he'd won.

2023-9-26 [Revised]

Theme: Growing through adversity