[Second Chance at Love + Campus and City Romance + CEO Pursues His Wife + Nostalgic Era + Standing Up to Bullying + Mutual Redemption]
The night before the college entrance exam, he crushed my youth to pieces with a single sentence: “I don’t like you.” Three years later, at the site of a mining disaster, my once-cold deskmate is now a CEO thrust into a crisis. He corners me, eyes bloodshot, and demands, “Shen Qing, I heard you had eight boyfriends in college?”
I thought he’d come to humiliate me. I had no idea those words concealed three years of obsession and longing.
The story goes back to 2005. He was the top student in the province and an heir to a wealthy family, the “monolid” deskmate I disliked at first sight.
I was forced to become the campus belle’s spy, planted at his side. But amid our daily chaos, I fell for him. He was sharp-tongued and arrogant, yet always took my side. He seemed aloof, but secretly tutored me.
I didn’t know that an unexpected family crisis had forced him to grow up overnight. To keep from burdening me, he chose to bear everything alone.
After we meet again, he barges back into my life, domineering yet clumsy. When all the misunderstandings are cleared up, and I learn how much love and protection lay behind his rejection, I finally understand: we missed out on our youth so that, in a more mature future, we could embrace each other more fully.
From bickering childhood rivals to soulmates, this is a story about missed chances, growth, and redemption. The best kind of love is finding your way back to each other and still choosing the same person.
