At Last, the Cold Wind Finds Its Way Home to Tenderness

After more than a decade of never letting herself relax, Zheng Hanfeng finally tasted what it was like to be understood, accepted, and cherished. She quietly fell for him and grew deeply dependent on him, but reality kept her trapped. She was a wife and a mother who couldn't bear to leave her children. She longed for his tenderness but didn't dare pursue it, tormented by indecision day after day. One night, years of pent-up grievances finally broke her. She wept herself to sleep reading Guang Yanrui's gentle messages. When she opened her eyes again, time had turned back to her youth. There was no suffocating marriage, no cold husband, no exhaustion from the daily grind. She met Guang Yanrui again, and his eyes held nothing but her. He saw through all her insecurity and timidity, embraced every bit of her sensitivity and anxiety, and slowly healed the wounds left by her family with his unconditional devotion. As they spent their days together, Zheng Hanfeng gradually changed. She stopped lowering herself to please others and stopped doubting herself. At last, she understood that it was never other people who had trapped her, but her insecurity born of feeling unloved and her cowardice in not daring to break free. The moment she made peace with herself and let go of all her burdens, time reversed, and the two of them returned to reality together. This time, Zheng Hanfeng was clear-eyed and decisive. She ended her rotten marriage, broke free from the shackles of her family, and left behind her submissive, self-effacing past. She had spent the first half of her life struggling alone through the mire, with no one to cherish her. In the second half, they would choose each other, and she would be loved year after year. After enduring every hardship, Hanfeng finally found tenderness to accompany her through the rest of her life.