Flower Messages of the Lantern Season

Cheerful, naive, and slightly dense x Paranoiac, madman, and sharp-edged. His “White Moonlight” and her “Black Lotus.” When Chu Mingse was six years old, a beautiful older brother moved in next door. He never went outside or spoke, his pale, gloomy, and beautiful face always hidden behind the window lattice. The children in the alley all said he was a mute and a cripple. Her parents told Mingse to take good care of their neighbor, so Mingse spent every day crawling through dog holes and climbing over walls, persistently bothering him. Later, she learned the truth: he wasn’t a mute, he simply no longer wished to speak. His legs had been broken by his own biological father. “It’s okay, Sese will make a wheelchair for you!” Mingse rolled up her sleeves and worked hard to learn the craft from her carpenter father. With that wheelchair, she crashed through the beautiful brother’s door—and into his tightly guarded heart. Pei Zhaoxue was once the pride of the capital. At eleven, he had just passed the Child Candidate exam, but his blossoming life came to a screeching halt. He was framed for slashing his younger brother and branded as cruel and cold-blooded. His father administered family discipline in public, personally breaking both his legs. His mother, through tears, sent him to a rural manor to fend for himself. He locked himself in his room, sinking into a night that knew no sun. But a ray of light came stumbling in, grabbing him and pushing him toward the world outside. “I’ll stay with you until you can stand up again, okay?” She squatted before his wheelchair, looking up at him like a kitten, her eyes as bright as a sea of stars. “…Okay,” he answered hoarsely. Years passed in the blink of an eye. At sixteen, Pei Zhaoxue suddenly received news of his mother’s death and was taken back to his family. Before leaving, he made a promise to Mingse: when the camellias bloomed, he would surely return. But he never expected that this journey would see him detained in the capital. By the time he returned to Lantern Lane, the lights were extinguished, the flowers had withered, and the house was empty. When they met again five years later, he had become the Emperor’s sharpest blade, while she was in the middle of exchanging marriage horoscopes with someone else. “Competing with me?” He chuckled softly, his fingertip grazing a cold blade. “Then you might as well die.” Five-year age gap. Both are each other’s first loves; both are “pure.” The male lead’s legs will heal. The main romance begins after their reunion. A story from childhood sweethearts to a lifelong vow. With the female lead watching over him, the male lead’s “villainy” is kept in check. The female lead has her own family, friendship, and career arcs; she is not a helpless victim. The male lead has a desire for “forceful possession” and has had his dark, “crawling-in-the-shadows” moments. However, the female lead is extremely dense and incredibly tolerant of him. She can always soothe him just as he is on the verge of madness—a very reassuring “dog leash” (not really). — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Flower Messages of the Lantern Season — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠