I haven't been this fascinated with a ship, let alone a straight ship, in SO LONG.
JinMao is just so good??????? Jinshi, the man who has everything but nothing, the man who has the looks, the man all the girls want. The man nobody actually loves. He wants it so bad, he wants someone to SEE him so bad. He's resigned himself to a life without.
But then Maomao shows up! And she doesn't give a shit about him, and that's interesting, and she's smart, and that's even more interesting, but wait she has passion. And she has drive. And she's a fucking FREAK.
And he tells himself she's his new toy. And she is.
But then he gets attached.
But his toys have always been taken away from him.
But now she's something else, something he wants but also needs, now she's someone he can't be without, and it all happened so fast!
And suddenly his future looks different. Suddenly he sees her there too, sees someone he can trust with everything he has, all his broken pieces he doesn't want anyone to see.
But he wants her to see. He wants her to see so bad. And then there's Maomao, who has gone through life being loved, and loved loudly, but her heart doesn't feel big enough. It feels like she's never been important or indispensable, and she's fine with that.
She can exist as a nobody. That's fine.
And she meets Jinshi, and he's sparkly and pretty, but he's just Some Guy. He's just her boss.
Until he isn't.
Because suddenly he's Seeing her more than anyone ever has. Suddenly he's protecting her, suddenly he trusts her.
And that's scary. She doesn't want his trust, because that's a big responsibility, and she's Nobody, and if she accepts that she's important to Jinshi then everything she understands about herself goes out the window.
And she tries so hard to keep her head down, and to keep herself existing as someone without meaning, but it's too late. She means a lot now, and maybe she doesn't understand why Jinshi looks at her like that, but he Looks at her.
He sees her. She sees him.
They are terrible for each other in all ways except the one that matters. They're friends, and they make fun of each other, and they drive each other insane.
But they can't live without each other anymore. Their lives are so closely intertwined and neither of them knows how or why that happened.
But it happened. And it's scary and it's hard and it makes no sense.
But god.
God, is it perfect.











