[Reunited after a long separation, rekindled love, sweet and angsty, happy ending]
Seven years later, Ni Zhen saw Huo Tingzhi again. He strode lightly out of the shadows, his eyes calm and unreadable, and said leisurely, “I’m taking charge of this.”
The moment she heard him, Ni Zhen stiffened.
The scene of their first meeting was playing out all over again. Back then, he had said those same seven words with the same nonchalant calm.
Now his deep, resonant voice was stirred by the passage of time,
breaking apart beside her ear.
Her gaze swept over the faint trace of amusement at the corner of his mouth.
Remembering the man’s wild abandon in the room just moments ago, Ni Zhen panicked.
“I just happened to catch this young woman being harassed on camera,” the familiar voice rang out again.
Was he pretending not to know her?
As they left the police station, the man stood in the darkness behind her and said in the same domineering, cold tone as before, “You’ve gotten bold.”
Ni Zhen slowly raised her head. The shirt button in her palm was already slick with sweat.
She tried to steady her panic and unease. “Sir, do we know each other?”
Thirty thousand feet in the air, the man had lost all his usual composure, his face marked by humility and anxiety.
“Zhenzhen, I was wrong. Forgive me!”
As he spoke, he jumped without hesitation.
