Year After Year, Long Peace

Everyone in Shangjing says Zhao Yuanche is pure-hearted and detached from desire, noble as a clear moon after rain—an aloof, luminous figure one can admire but never reach. Only Jiang Youning knows that, beneath the surface, this elder brother of hers is a blaze of fire. The moment she touches him, he burns fiercely, hot and consuming. During those secret years, he called her “Qingqing” countless times in a hoarse voice, dragging her again and again into ruin. Indifferent to worldly desire? That was all a lie. Later, Zhao Yuanche became engaged to someone else. Jiang Youning packed up all she had accumulated over the years and fled overnight, only for him to block her path amid the soft...