(Five-year age gap + sweet and angsty romance + both leads are inexperienced in love + the male lead’s secret crush comes true + the second male lead pursues her after losing her + putting scumbags in their place)
With her second anniversary with Xie Xizhou just around the corner, Fang Youyi accidentally learns that he’s planning to dump her.
Fang Youyi’s heart turns cold, and she agrees to a matchmaking date arranged by her family.
Who could have guessed fate would play such a cruel joke on her?
Her blind date is not only her direct superior, but also Xie Xizhou’s maternal uncle: Song Qingyan, the iron-faced heartthrob who commands respect throughout Beijing’s elite circles.
She only meant to go through the motions.
But Song Qingyan takes her hand in front of everyone and makes Xie Xizhou call her, “Your aunt by marriage.”
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Everyone assumes Song Qingyan and Fang Youyi are only putting on an act.
After all, a powerful man like Song Qingyan would hardly risk being branded as the man who stole his nephew’s girlfriend and having people talk behind his back.
But one night, when Fang Youyi’s fever refuses to break, Song Qingyan, usually cold and short-tempered, gently coaxes her to take her medicine:
“Be good, sweetheart. Once you’ve taken your medicine, you can have anything you want.”
“I want the stars in the sky!”
“Sure. I’ll have a designer plan a house with a starry-sky ceiling.”
“I want to leave you!”
Song Qingyan holds her tightly, his gaze firm. “That’s the one thing you can’t have. I waited years to be with you. I’ll never let you go for as long as I live.”
