Winter Scenery, Spring Splendor

Sickly older top × self-reliant lawyer bottom

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[Song Jingxing: In a barren winter, you are the only spring that never fades.]

[Wen Cheng: Because of our reunion, winter scenery has outshone spring blossoms ever since.]

Song Jingxing had this ability since he was in his twenties:

He could dig a warm, sweet trap, lure someone inside, and leave them intoxicated, then strike without warning.

Eight years ago, Wen Cheng stayed with the Song family. Everyone could see how well Song Jingxing treated him.

Only Wen Cheng knew how ruthless Song Jingxing could be beneath that gentle exterior.

Years later, Wen Cheng returned to the country, not for Song Jingxing, and yet he kept running into him at every turn.

Perhaps it was fate.

Only after Wen Cheng saw Song Jingxing's transplant matching report did he realize that the fate he'd imagined between them was actually absurd and laughable...

That child barged into Song Jingxing's life just like that.

He'd never met a child like him, stubborn as a weed that could grow wherever the wind carried it.

His love was like a weed, too, spreading in a blaze without anyone noticing.

Song Jingxing had gone mad for Wen Cheng and risked his life for him.

But the last image of Wen Cheng in his memories was of him embracing and kissing a boy in the snow.

That boy was younger and healthier than him. Song Jingxing was so jealous he nearly died.

If he hadn't been sick...

If he'd been able to protect Wen Cheng back then...

Would things have ended differently?

Years later, when they met again, his little friend had grown into a bright, straight tree.

Even if Song Jingxing was frail and had little time left, what did it matter?

At least one of them had found happiness.

Thanks as always to the wonderful, beautiful Ci Jiu for the cover. Sending love!

Before You Start:

1. One-on-one romance. The top is sickly, but he's a cockroach who just won't die. Some character details and plot points are designed to put the top through the wringer. Don't read if you don't enjoy that.

2. Older top, six years older than the bottom. Slow burn, with an old-school melodramatic feel.

3. The author has no particular favorites. Anyone might get hurt or spoiled.

4. No insults or arguments, please. You don't need to tell me if you drop the story.

5. The blurb may change at any time before the official release. The version in effect when the story begins is final.

Theme: Be independent and self-reliant. Don't let others control you.