[Main story complete, extra sweet chapters updating regularly]
The first time they officially met, the little girl tumbled into his courtyard, cat and all. Holding up the tiny kitten, she gazed at him with wide, watery eyes. “Would you take it in?”
Later, she sat on top of the wall with a half-eaten chicken wing in her hand, smiling brightly at him. “I came to see the cat.”
Much later, the girl crouched on the wall outside his house, crying her eyes out. “I... just happened to be passing by and wanted to see the cat.” The kitten shivered in her arms.
The man sighed and crouched in front of her. A thin veil of frost settled over his refined features. After a long moment, he smiled silently and carried both her and the cat home.
Niannian panicked. “Mr. Shang, I really was just passing by.”
His cool fingertips lightly touched her forehead, his gaze deep and tender. “Mm. You were just passing by, but I didn't want to let you pass me by.”
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At the awards ceremony, Ji Niannian held her trophy and beamed. “I want to thank my husband. He was there for me when I had nothing, and when I stood in the spotlight. Five years ago, he was an unreachable legend to me. Five years later, he's the brilliant light guiding me forward.”
The man sitting below the stage had worn a stern expression for most of the evening, but it finally softened for a moment. He gently turned the ring on his ring finger and smiled at the camera.
“You're welcome, Mrs. Shang.”
Meeting you is the greatest blessing of my three lifetimes.
[A sweet, devoted 1v1 romance]
[Mutual secret crush, extra sweet]
[Eight-year age gap]
[A handsome, gentle gentleman who's only good to the heroine vs. a sweet heroine who's a little firecracker around others but a timid little kitten around the hero]
