Party A and Party B: No Zither, No Will

[One-on-One Romance + Devoted to Each Other + Campus Romance + Reunited After a Breakup = Sweet Enough to Kill]

A traffic accident brought back the most important man in my life.

My name is Chen Zheng, and I’m 29 years old. I’m a labor relations lawyer. Thanks to my loyalty to the one firm I joined after graduation, years of hard work, and an impeccable win rate, I became a senior lawyer in the Labor Relations Department. Compared to my career, my love life has been a complete failure. Ever since we lost touch when I was 22, my love life seemed to hit pause. Seven years later, he came back.

Under the blazing sun at 16, I met Lian Yi. From that moment on, my life could never again be separated from his name.

We healed and stayed by each other’s side, navigating a youth filled with sweetness, uncertainty, and challenges, and embarked on a seven-year romance.

We promised to marry after graduation, to love each other wholeheartedly and never doubt one another.

But he disappeared without warning. “A man may give his life for his country, but not his beloved.” Perhaps I should have guessed the ending that afternoon on my sixteenth birthday.

After earning my master’s degree, I was brought into the firm by my idol, now my employer. I threw myself into work day and night, trying to numb myself and forget Lian Yi, whose whereabouts were unknown, and the child we lost when I was 22.

On an ordinary winter’s day, he came back. He took out a Tiffany ring engraved “Z.Y.” I, too, held tight to the platinum ring on my middle finger, my only comfort over the past seven years. He asked me to marry him. All I wanted to say was, “Yes.”