[BL] Dear CEO, you can lean on me and cry
A terminally ill 25-year-old billionaire CEO, Rowan Donovan, boards a public bus for the first time in his life, not to commute, but to escape.
He has just received the diagnosis that will destroy him: stage 4 cancer, six months to live. On that bus, he collapses emotionally into the shoulder of a stranger, a devastatingly handsome man who simply holds him without judgment. The stranger never asks questions; he simply lets Rowan weep away years of manufactured coldness in five minutes. When Rowan leaves the bus, he's ashamed and determined to forget the moment ever happened.
But the next morning, that stranger walks into his office as his new personal assistant.
As Rowan fights to ignore him, the stranger, Lucian fights to get close. Their relationship becomes a quiet obsession with Rowan pushing away, the mysterious man drawing closer, both circling something neither can name.
However, their fragile connection shatters when Rowan's ruthless father forces him into an arranged marriage and threatens to destroy everything he cares about.
Now, trapped in a loveless marriage, deteriorating from illness, and under siege from corporate enemies, Rowan must decide: does he die as the cold, controlled CEO everyone expects, or does he risk everything for a connection with the one person who seems to genuinely care for him?
What Rowan doesn't know is that this stranger is far more than he appears, and the truth about his identity will change everything, including whether Rowan's six months will be his last, or his beginning.
Who or what is Lucian Vale?
