After the college entrance exams, Tong Mingyue was sorting through old photo albums when she unexpectedly traveled back to the 1990s.
The good news: She got to see her late grandpa, her parents when they were young, and her little uncle, the delinquent who would give the whole family headaches in the future.
The bad news: In the 1990s, she was busy every day with things like...
Helping her grandparents outwit their awful relatives;
Coming up with plans to help her brash mother and innocent father fall in love;
Telling her middle-school-aged uncle about the miserable life awaiting him, and teaching him not to date too young...
One day, at the end of an alley, she found a miserable-looking, handsome blond boy: Jiang Liang.
Jiang Liang told Tong Mingyue that both his parents were dead, his family had abandoned him, and he was making a living working at the internet cafe by the alley. Everyone on the street bullied him because he had no one to rely on.
Whenever he saw Tong Mingyue, he smiled, looking so beautiful and broken.
Tong Mingyue's heart melted. Every day, she came up with new ways to feed the poor thing, stood up to the street thugs for him, and even argued with her uncle, who spread rumors that he was "violent."
Until one night, Tong Mingyue ran into Jiang Liang outside the internet cafe, standing over a whole lot of groaning thugs.
He held a bloodstained baseball bat and sneered down at them. When he saw Tong Mingyue, the fury in his eyes froze.
The next second, the 185-centimeter-tall "poor thing" dropped the bat, his eyes reddening as he gazed at her pitifully.
"Little Moon, you're finally here."
"There were so many of them, and they all ganged up on me..."
Jiang Liang wasn't a good person.
Born to struggle in the mire, he survived with his fists and blood.
Everyone feared him, cursed him, and stayed away from him.
Until Tong Mingyue appeared in his world.
She brought him steaming hot buns, stood in front of him to shield him from malice, and listened to the things no one else understood.
Jiang Liang craved that warmth, so he hid his fangs, sheathed his claws, and pretended to be the kind of person she liked.
One night, Jiang Liang looked at Tong Mingyue, asleep beside the computer. He draped a coat over her and kissed her cheek.
Everyone says the moonlight is too cold.
No one knows he once held the moon in the darkness.
That warm moon was the only light in his life.
Also known as:
How I thought I was rescuing a stray puppy,
when actually a wolf was carefully drawing me into the softest corner of his territory
Theme: Healing old regrets