A Love Letter on Vinyl

[Age gap × winning her back after losing her × charged push and pull during the reconciliation × happy ending]

[32-year-old elite lawyer × 24-year-old socially anxious editor]

He Nuan runs into Shen Chuan, the senior she had a crush on in college, at a café. Just as she is about to greet him, she notices that he already has a girlfriend.

Distraught, she spills her coffee on a stranger. To her surprise, he looks a lot like Shen Chuan, but is even more mature and distinguished.

He is a top lawyer, a refined gentleman from an esteemed family, and everything about him belongs to a world beyond He Nuan’s reach.

She is merely an unsociable editor whose one real talent is turning complicated things into stories.

When work ties them together, He Nuan discovers that Gu Wenbai is nothing like Shen Chuan. He leaves his coat and a note when she falls asleep working late, listens attentively to her wild ideas, and remembers that she takes her coffee without sugar.

The trouble is, Shen Chuan suddenly reappears. When Gu Wenbai finds out, his attitude toward her turns cold. “Editor He, I thought there was at least some honesty between us.”

When she tries to explain but gets no reply, she overhears her colleagues gossiping: “I hear Lawyer Gu is going abroad. His salary will double.”

When mistaken identity collides with an overseas opportunity, and an eight-year age gap becomes a source of heartache, how will this chance encounter end?

◆ Do you like me, or just this face that looks like his?

◆ The impulse I felt at thirty-two was to fall for you at twenty-four.

◆ I never loved a chance resemblance. I loved the real you, all along.

Late at night in a hospital corridor, he keeps watch over his critically ill father and, exhausted, finally confesses: “He Nuan, I don’t want to be just a substitute…”