Wayward heiress who grew up away from home VS her eight-years-older, reluctantly fatherly childhood friend
To Xia Fan, her boss, eight years her senior, was like an enticing, expensive cream cake: she wanted him, but didn't dare reach for him.
What she could never have was Bo Yizhou's most passionate affection, that wild, youthful spirit.
Then, during a humid, sweltering rainy season, he suddenly returned, barged into her room, did something intimate with her, and told her, "It's okay now. I'm here."
Xia Fan left, then came back. From beginning to end, Bo Yizhou's gaze on her was never innocent, yet he let her roam wherever she pleased.
Only when she stood with him atop a snowy mountain and watched crows attack an eagle did she understand. It wasn't that he didn't want to do many of those things. He was afraid, too.
He was afraid of repeating the mistakes of his youth, afraid of doing even one thing he might regret. All he wanted was to atone.
He treasured her and held himself back every step of the way, yet still couldn't bring himself to say, "You're the person I've been looking for all this time."
He couldn't admit, either, that the wildness of those years and the silence of these years had all been for her.
Reader's Guide:
1. The leads are not related by blood and are not registered in the same household. They used to be neighbors. Both are each other's first and only.
2. Their romance begins after they reunite as adults. They had no romantic feelings for each other before adulthood. But when you like the look of someone, you like the look of them, and that doesn't change much from childhood to adulthood.
Rolling around and acting cute to beg for follows, meow~
Theme: A young person's journey from confusion to certainty.
