Upside Down

/A heartless woman who wants sex, not love vs. a loyal puppy she can't chase away

The day Cheng Sheng proposed ending their relationship, Haicheng was pelted by torrential rain.

Kou Xingbai waited outside her home all night, while she stayed behind the video doorbell all night with him.

They were both exhausted, their eyes bloodshot. But he didn't dare knock again and disturb her, and she steeled herself not to open the door for him.

She thought that, by her own calculations, the scales of her feelings would stay balanced and rational forever. Little did she know that her heart's scales had long since tipped toward him.

A month later, they both went abroad.

Cheng Sheng went to Europe, supposedly to travel and clear her head.

Kou Xingbai went to North America, promising her he'd focus on his graduate studies.

One was thinking of saying goodbye, the other of seeing her again.

In the seventh year, Kou Xingbai graduated early and flew back before she could get engaged.

After so long apart, the boy had shed his youthful awkwardness, his sharp features now lending him a mature air.

But in front of her, he was still as aggrieved as a German Shepherd left behind by its owner for too long. "Didn't we agree you'd wait for me to come back? Why are you getting engaged to someone else?"

Cheng Sheng shamefully felt her heart flutter for the first time in ages, but she still stubbornly denied it. "Who said I'd wait for you? I'm forever young, and I'll only ever like twenty-year-olds."

Kou Xingbai had outgrown the habit of blushing after just a few words. Shamelessly, he grabbed her hand and guided it toward his lower abdomen, then flirted, "I just turned twenty-five. I've lifted more weights than they've drunk water. More importantly, I haven't forgotten a single one of your sensitive spots. Every night, I..."

Cheng Sheng gritted her teeth and clapped a hand over his mouth. "Get lost!"

But this time, he wouldn't listen to her saying one thing and meaning another. He would stay by her side forever.

Proving his love through devotion, confessing through companionship.

With the hourglass turned upside down, her heart still raced just as it had at their first meeting.

1. Younger man, six-year age gap. The female lead has had relationships before; the male lead is a virgin.

2. The male lead is a model student in the School of Male Virtue, and he's best at comforting himself.

3. The female lead watches herself fall in love, clear-eyed.

4. Slow burn, with lots of push and pull.

Theme: Love and companionship