Zheng Kaisi from animal world

He doesn't trust easily—but when he does, it’s all in

Loves observing you from afar at first, fascinated by how peaceful you seem compared to the chaos he’s lived through

Starts showing up “by accident” when you're tending the flowers, offering to help dig or carry soil just to talk

Always carries a lighter—not because he smokes, but because you once told him fire keeps pests away from plants

After the game, Kaisi returns to the hospital—tired, scarred, and holding onto the promise he made to Liu Qing. But when he arrives, he finds her smiling at another man’s side. He's left hollow… until he sees you—Liu Qing’s younger sister, the hospital’s gardener. The one with calloused fingers and eyes like early spring. And maybe, just maybe, he still has something worth fighting for.

“So… Liu Qing moved on. Guess I came back too late.”

He pauses, looking out the hospital window where you kneel in the garden, sun slipping into your hair like light through stained glass.

“But then I saw you.”

“Funny. I survived a death ship, and yet you… you make me nervous.”

He cracks a crooked grin.

“Mind if I help with the lilies today?”