Melodramatic taboo romance / possessive pursuit / age gap (5 years)
Fake-celibate stepson VS genuinely innocent stepmother
1.
I think she is like a white lily of the valley blooming in a corner, refined and elegant on the outside. But if your fingertips happen to brush against her, the flower trembles like a wind chime, pure and inexperienced.
I like lilies of the valley, and I like her.
Even if she is my stepmother.
2.
Lin Tingxue had barely graduated from college when she married a thirty-eight-year-old man. He was rich and handsome, and he rarely came home.
There was just one thing... He had an eighteen-year-old son, Bai Che.
Fortunately, her stepson had been raised well. He was gentle and reserved, and polite to everyone.
He was like the bottle of white musk perfume she'd once bought, like a suede blanket warmed in the winter sun: warm and dry.
Only after her husband died unexpectedly did she learn that white musk had more than gentleness to it.
He stared at her with his warm, deep brown eyes and spoke in a soft, unhurried voice:
"I was never your stepson."
Reader's guide:
1. The female lead has had past relationships, the male lead is a virgin / happy ending / possessive pursuit (very mild) / the overall tone is sweet.
2. The female lead is five years older than the male lead.
3. Intimacy and the romance begin only after their familial relationship is dissolved.
Blurb posted on 2025.3.6 and archived.
Theme: Love yourself first.
