Sleepless in the Capital in Summer

[Age Gap + The Powerful One Bows His Head + Rekindled Romance + Intense Push and Pull + Secret Love + The Greater Good]

At seventeen, Xia Ran’s world collapsed overnight.

The entire Xia family of Nancheng was murdered. Her parents were dead, and her older brother, Xia Yan, had vanished without a trace.

In a single night, she became an orphan with nowhere to go.

On a night of heavy snow in Jingbei, Bo Siheng appeared at the police station.

He and her brother, Xia Yan, had been college classmates.

Once, Xia Yan had told him, “My sister is timid. If anything ever happens to me, please look after her for a couple of days.”

No one could have imagined that “a couple of days” would become forever.

Bo Siheng asked no questions. He simply took her away from the station.

Old Master Bo was furious. In the family shrine, he gripped a whip and berated him: “You’re going to be the death of me! You’re keeping some girl of unknown origins just because you feel like it!”

Bo Siheng knelt on the cushion, back straight, and silently endured dozens of lashes.

Blood ran down his back. He said just one thing: “I’m keeping her. No matter what.”

The old master was so enraged that he threw down the whip. “If she stays, you can forget about coming back to this family.”

Bo Siheng’s back was beaten bloody and raw. He glanced at Xia Ran and said, “Whatever happens, as long as I’m here, you’ll have a place here too.”

She thought she was nothing but a burden, living under someone else’s roof.

She had no idea that the man who reached out to her in her darkest hour had never intended to let go, not from the moment he saw the scars on her wrist.