No Plum Blossoms Fall on South Mountain

Everyone in Beicheng knows that Nan Yi and Zhuang Yuqin used to be together.

There are all kinds of rumors about why they broke up. The most widely circulated version is that Grandpa Zhuang stepped in to separate them, and Nan Yi dumped Zhuang Yuqin in exchange for the resources he'd promised her.

A few years later, Zhuang Yuqin officially takes over the Zhuang family. Before long, rumors spread that he has a woman by his side.

He dotes on her, cherishes her, and gives her all the finest things.

Everyone mocks Nan Yi, wondering if she'll regret it once she finds out. Then, at a banquet, someone sees Zhuang Yuqin kneeling before Nan Yi, holding her ankle and rubbing it again and again.

His voice is gentle, so unlike the man he is in business. "Does it still hurt?"

-

When Nan Yi and Zhuang Yuqin were together, he hadn't yet been adopted into the Zhuang family.

They shared the best days of their lives, and then came a brutal breakup.

She wants nothing more to do with him, yet runs into him at her lowest point.

The light in the private room is dim that night. He sits on the sofa and doesn't look at her once.

She thinks he's moved on, until one late night not long afterward, he pins her beneath him and kisses her roughly.

"Have you regretted breaking up with me over these past five years?"

His right eye turns bloodshot in an instant. Tears well up and fall onto the back of her hand,

forcing the words "Never" back down her throat.

-

Zhuang Yuqin keeps using work as an excuse to create chances to spend time with Nan Yi.

He thinks he should hate her and take revenge, but in the end, he realizes he still loves her deeply.

"Love is a hand that wants to touch, but pulls back."

Actress × tycoon | Rekindled romance | Angsty push and pull | HE · non-linear storytelling · both virgins

The last line of the blurb is quoted from J. D. Salinger's A Perfect Day for Bananafish.

The original blurb was written on November 9, 2024.

---Mountain Moon and Chun---

At seventeen, Ye Chunxi moves into Qinyuan with her aunt. As she turns into a covered corridor, she stops in her tracks as if possessed.

Through the misty drizzle, a young man in white stands among the pavilions by the water, like a graceful landscape painting.

He glances her way from afar, making her blush and her heart race.

Her aunt tells her that he's the child of Qinyuan's owner, a few months older than her.

Pei Yuqing's handwriting is as clean and beautiful as his features. No matter how hard Ye Chunxi tries, she can't copy it properly.

One day, he catches her in the act and asks what she's writing.

She stammers, "I'm trying to copy your handwriting and write your name."

He asks nothing. He steps behind her, gently takes her hand, and guides her in writing her own name on the paper.

That was the closest Ye Chunxi ever got to Pei Yuqing during her girlhood.

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They meet again seven years later. Pei Yuqing's legs are disabled after a car accident.

By chance, she becomes his rehabilitation therapist.

Before she can introduce herself, she hears him ask softly, "Ye Chunxi?"

She's amazed he remembers her so well.

He looks at her with a gentle smile. "You're not so easy to forget."

At those words, Ye Chunxi's youthful crush bursts back to life.

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Spring is the season Pei Yuqing hates most.

That is, until Ye Chunxi appears.

Through every unbearable rainy season, her tender gaze comforts him more than a warm towel.

The ugly scars on his legs that he's so weary of hiding become, in her eyes alone, strong new branches.

She says she likes collecting wind chimes. Later, he opens a wind chime workshop in her name and calls it Spring Encounter.

Rehabilitation therapist × young master of a Jiangnan family

One-sided love from the heroine | Gentle, slow-burn romance | Very little description of their younger years | Both virgins

The male lead's legs will recover.

Theme: Love yourself