Where the Heart Wanders

A gentle, conflicted therapist struggling with emotional illness x a composed, ambitious tech tycoon who advances step by step

While she was still in school, Chang Zaixin kept an ID photo of a boy taped to her desk. She had cut it out of the honor roll.

She often ran her fingers over it. The photo had long since faded.

Later, she got into the university the boy attended. Only after fulfilling her father's dying wish did she finally take the photo down.

She thought they would never cross paths again, but two years after graduation, she actually met him by the river at six in the morning.

From then on, Chang Zaixin developed another odd habit: every day after work, she would go to the river to secretly watch him. This went on for years, and he never knew.

It wasn't until she ran into him again in her daily life and the two came face-to-face that she finally gave up the habit.

After all, if he found out, he'd call her a pervert.

But when she tried to run, he pursued her, and with considerable skill. His actions were perfectly aboveboard, yet she felt he was even more furtive than she was.

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The first time they met, Chang Zaixin was arguing her case with a burly man, and a large patch of her clothes was soaked.

Yu You draped his suit jacket over her, covering her up completely.

She looked up and met his eyes, seeing her own guilty expression reflected in them.

Oh no, she thought. Now I can never go spy on him by the river again.

After that, Yu You kept mysteriously appearing by her side and showing her affection.

Even Chang Zaixin could tell what he was after. She had meant to play dumb to the end.

But Yu You used a game to ask her, "Have you been thinking about dating anyone lately?"

She was already falling for him, and love came naturally.

But Chang Zaixin was hiding many secrets, and she was often consumed by unease.

She didn't know how long this relationship would last.

It wasn't until a fellow student from her program kept warning her and suspecting that her old illness had returned that she realized the seed buried in her heart, which she had longed so many times to see sprout, had already broken through the soil.

After her parents died unexpectedly, Chang Zaixin turned herself into an island.

There were no flowers or trees on that island, only her own self being devoured by ants.

Red marks dotted her entire body. She could only survive by coexisting with the pain.

Fortunately, along the road to saving herself, she met many people willing to give her a hand.

Reading Tips:

1. The female lead has suffered from emotional illness for many years. She is on a journey of self-redemption and gradually grows.

2. The male lead is a hardworking, ambitious small-business owner who has had a one-sided crush on her for years.

3. Li Jianxi and Qian Wudi are the bickering side couple, always at each other's throats.

4. Everyone meets many people who lend them a hand along the way, but in the end, only you can pull yourself out of the swamp. So please keep saving yourself from danger, again and again.

Theme: Help others help themselves.