A Love That Keeps Growing

---Advance notice: "Sudden Rebellion," a story in the same series. Please add it to your collection---

Blurb:

[Cool, sharp-tongued wheelchair-bound golden boy VS brave, lovable sweetheart who doesn't realize how charming she is]

Childhood friends | Male lead has a secret crush | Growing up together | Rekindled romance

1.

In the bitter winter of the new millennium, five-year-old Lin Bonan's life hit rock bottom.

From then on, the golden boy fell into the mire and ended up in a wheelchair.

Lin Bonan was aloof, taciturn, calculating, and vindictive.

Only Yuan Qingyao could get him angry and still get away unscathed.

She could slap him and soothe him without even giving him a sweet to make up for it, simply because he liked her.

2.

The girl's heart was more tightly sealed than concrete poured into a cement mold.

She saw him only as her best friend.

Ashamed of his disability, he couldn't bring himself to cross the line with her.

At eighteen, his long-suppressed affection burst forth.

He looked away, his eyes spreading with a deep, sea-like light. "You still haven't noticed? There's someone..."

"Who likes you as more than just his best friend."

At last, her wooden head began to catch on.

More than friends, but not quite lovers.

But their graduation trip after the college entrance exams shattered everything.

She threw away the eighteenth-birthday present she'd bought him and left the seaside without looking back.

She never saw him fall onto the sand behind her, frantic, dragging his useless legs as he crawled around searching for her, the seawater lapping at his battered body.

3.

They met again after seven years apart.

He was a top-level exoskeleton engineer, and she was the marketing planner for the dating show "A Love That Grows."

This time, the "natural airhead" still had the measure of the "stubborn smart-mouth."

[What he gave her wasn't just love. It was a love that would grow.]

TIPS:

1. They reunite first, then the story goes back to their childhood and follows them as they grow up.

2. One-on-one romance, both sexually inexperienced, each other's first love.

3. The male lead's hand recovers, but his leg doesn't.

4. A story about the male lead's secret crush. The female lead charms him from childhood onward, but they remain friends until they're both adults.

5. A slow-paced growing-up story. Their irreplaceable feelings are built from all the little moments of their shared past, so please be patient.

6. Please add it to your collection and leave a comment.

Advance notice: "Sudden Rebellion"

[Manipulative, calculating, gentle black swan VS timid, people-pleasing little lamb]

Age gap | Gentle, fatherly male lead | Marriage before love | Secret crush comes true | Mutual healing

1.

During her sophomore summer break, Jiang Zhuyu was frazzled by a mechanical engineering competition when a book in the window of a book cafe caught her eye:

"The Greatest Mechanical Engineering Bible Ever! If It Doesn't Work, I'll Eat Shit!"

The ridiculously long title took up almost the entire cover, and the font was as flamboyant as the word "shit."

Curiosity got the better of her, and she pushed open the bookstore door.

She didn't find the book, but she did get a good look at the elegant, gentle man in the wheelchair.

She fell in love with him at first sight.

He worked at the book cafe. Before leaving, he "begged" the owner for the day's leftover bread, then wheeled out of sight, looking terribly pitiful.

Jiang Zhuyu assumed he was struggling to get by.

All summer, she brought him a meal from the cafeteria every single day and went to the book cafe to get close to him, coming up with every excuse she could think of to protect his pride and make sure he didn't go hungry.

2.

At the start of her junior year, a tall man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and carrying a black-and-gold cane walked to the podium in a new elective course.

With effortless poise, he said, "I'm Shi Ruocheng, a doctoral supervisor in the School of Economics. I look forward to working with you this semester."

Jiang Zhuyu: "...!"

It was him!

The hard-up guy who worked in a wheelchair!

Their eyes met.

Her face flushed with embarrassment, and her toes curled against the floor.

His inscrutable gaze was hidden behind his lenses. The attendance sheet was as light as a cicada's wing. Smiling, he circled her name with his finger.

3.

Because of their fathers' camaraderie, Jiang Zhuyu's father arranged a marriage for her without her permission. She heard her future husband was a rich cripple.

She cried into her pillow all night. The next day, eyes swollen, she went to meet her fiance, determined to cancel the engagement even if it killed her.

But the refined, dignified man, behind his gold-rimmed glasses, was like a birdcage trapping her. He had been waiting for her for a long time.

The heavy tap of his cane struck her ears as he approached to the beat of her pounding heart. "Not running away anymore?"

Huddled in his tall, broad shadow, her cheeks burning, she whispered, "Professor..."

"I quit."

Shi Ruocheng smiled, gentle as jade, but a dark edge crept into his words. "I like it better when you don't call me that."

[You gave me unprecedented courage and the rebellion to defy the world]

Theme: You are the strength that helps me resist my brokenness