Aimee_Sandhu
Some people fall in love.
Dao made a decision.
The moment twenty-year-old Dao saw the cold, elegant woman sitting across the club, she knew one thing with absolute certainty-
She wanted her.
Sam was everything Dao had never chased before: twenty-seven, mature, intimidating, fiercely independent, and almost impossible to read. The kind of woman who kept everyone at arm's length and preferred silence over small talk.
Most people would admire her from a distance.
Dao moved in next door.
Armed with nothing but relentless determination, shameless flirting, and a smile that refused to give up, Dao is prepared to chip away at the walls around Sam's carefully guarded heart-one unexpected encounter at a time.
But Sam refuses to mistake obsession for love.
To her, Dao is just a bright college student experiencing a fleeting crush.
To Dao...
It's anything but fleeting.
As playful teasing slowly turns into late-night conversations, shared dinners, quiet moments, and feelings neither of them expected, the line between persistence and vulnerability begins to blur.
Can a woman who has always chosen solitude learn to let someone in?
And can a girl whose heart has already decided its destination prove that what she feels isn't just youthful infatuation-but something that will last?
Sometimes the person living next door becomes the one who changes everything.
And sometimes...
The hardest heart is the one worth waiting for.
*A slow-burn GL romance filled with witty banter, emotional tension, age-gap romance, neighbors-to-lovers, and the story of a determined girl who refuses to give up on the woman she loves.*