[Unexpected houseguest trope] Cohabitation first, romance later, with a groveling ex who tries to win her back
Independent and brave x cold and gloomy
Cheng Jin moves to the big city to study and stays at the home of her grandfather's old army buddy. She has no choice but to live with the strange Huo Fusheng.
He hates everything about her. He's ill, too.
Cheng Jin never thought she'd later corner him in a dim home theater and confess her feelings.
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Huo Fusheng hates the girl who suddenly moved into the room next to his. More accurately, he hates everyone, and of course that includes her.
She's always such a mess. And she even confessed to him.
Huo Fusheng never thought there would later be so many rain-soaked nights between them.
He never went out. His room was as cold and silent as a coffin. His sleep schedule was the opposite of everyone else's, and his whole body was an unhealthy shade of pale. Then, one dim, dusky evening, she arrived with the rain and mist, becoming an exit from his endless night.
Later, on another rainy day, Cheng Jin's boyfriend was waiting outside the door. Huo Fusheng gripped her wrist, his knuckles turning white with the force of it. "You can't leave."
Cheng Jin smiled. "Huo Fusheng, you lost."
"Yes. I lost."
Can admitting defeat stop the pain? Rain and mist rolled in, just like on so many damp nights before.
"Please become an unseen dusk,
let my unease and longing become your hesitant twilight,
become the colors you're unsure of."
Fernando Pessoa | Our Lady of Silence
*Reader's guide
Unexpected houseguest trope / happy ending / sweet romance
Blurb written on 2024.02.21
Theme: Love is being seen clearly by you.
