Strictly speaking, there is a ten-year age gap between them. It would be appropriate for Xia Wanzhao to call him Uncle, or even older brother.
However, Jin Qingzhou had been precocious since childhood, and given what his family had been through, he was more mature than his peers, so he had always cast himself in the role of an elder. He had assumed he would simply treat Xia Wanzhao like Qiao An’s sister and look after her, never expecting that something like what happened three months ago would occur.
Waking up to find Xia Wanzhao lying beside him, Jin Qingzhou had appeared calm on the surface, but inwardly, he was more panicked than she was. He was not an inexperienced child; in his earlier years, he had even had a girlfriend he was on the verge of marrying. Yet, he had always been emotionally detached. His gentle demeanor was merely a facade—in truth, he never let anyone into his heart. Even with his ex-fiancée, the word "suitable" mattered far more than "love."
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