[Gentle, patient disabled gentleman VS adorable, haughty little drama queen]
Age gap | Guardian trope | Male lead suffering
1.
A childhood accident left Lou Yun orphaned and alone.
At the funeral, a handsome man in a wheelchair reached out a misshapen hand to her. "Yunyun, I was your father's student."
"Would you like to come live with me from now on?"
Lou Yun recognized him. He was her father's star pupil.
He'd come to their home many times to talk about academics with her father. She would hide behind the second-floor railing and peek curiously at the wheelchair beneath him.
That chair was so cool. It could move by itself. She told her mother she wanted one.
Her mother had said, disapprovingly, "Don't say things like that! Only disabled people whose hands are broken use those!"
Poor big brother, unable to walk or move his hands.
That was Lou Yun's second impression of Dai Zhongke.
Whenever Dai Zhongke visited, Lou Yun looked forward to catching his gentle gaze as he looked up at her.
When he caught her peeking, she would pout and raise her brows, putting on a stubborn heiress's air, though her cheeks would turn pink.
Big brother was pretty handsome, after all. That was her first impression.
2.
It's hard to go from luxury to frugality. Having grown up a pampered little princess, even a middle-class life felt like escaping a famine.
During her school years, Dai Zhongke was both a big brother and a father to her, her shelter from the storm.
He was her emotional punching bag, accepting every one of her bad moods.
Dai Zhongke would often smile at her like spring water and say, "All right, I'll figure something out for Yunyun."
When romance blossomed during adolescence, boys who admired Lou Yun could circle the sports field several times over.
Her classmates asked if she liked anyone.
Dai Zhongke's face flashed through her mind, but right in front of him she pointed at the soccer field. "I like the captain of the soccer team because he has long, muscular legs."
Revenge.
Dai Zhongke seemed to have found someone he was flirting with.
He hadn't waited for her to grow up.
3.
Unable to have the one she loved, Lou Yun fled overseas to study.
The first thing she did after returning to China was throw the money she'd earned abroad at Dai Zhongke. "This is for raising me. I don't owe you anymore!"
"We're even." Dai Zhongke didn't refuse. His gentle smile was hard to hide the bitterness behind. "There's not much I can give you now, anyway."
With a dazzling resume and money rolling in every day, Lou Yun returned to her life as a rich heiress.
The little girl he'd protected as she grew up had now spread her wings and was soaring.
And what had also grown was his love for her, piled up over tens of thousands of days and nights, held back and never spoken.
"Dai Zhongke." Lou Yun's tears fell to pieces. "You still haven't given me what I want."
The little girl he feared seeing cry most of all. Dai Zhongke wiped her tears. "You deserve the best, and I'm far from it. But if you would be willing..."
"It would be my honor to have one more place in your life."
[The mountains and seas stretch vast, spring nights never end. You are trapped by your journey, and I am trapped in a coffin by you.]
Blurb revised on 2024.11.25 (screenshot saved)
TIPS:
1. The male lead will not recover, and there are many scenes of physical suffering.
2. Flawed characters, mutually exclusive, 11-year age gap.
3. The male lead is not attracted to children. They have no intimate interactions before the female lead comes of age.
4. The blurb makes it sound angsty, but the actual story is fine.
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