[Bright, Proud Architect VS Worldly Investment Banking Star]
[Rekindled Romance + Bittersweet Push and Pull + Reunion After Years Apart]
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At eighteen, Meng Xiangnan and Fu Jinyan ranked first and second among the new students at the School of Architecture.
They clashed and fell out on the very first day of school.
By the usual plotline, they were destined to be bitter rivals for the next five years.
But under Fu Jinyan's determined pursuit, the spark between them turned from rivalry into a meeting of equals.
Their romance was passionate, and when they broke up, everyone knew about it.
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At twenty-nine, Meng Xiangnan had become a rising star in architecture, while Fu Jinyan had vanished without a trace.
A former classmate said they had seen the two of them at the welcome-home banquet on the day Meng Xiangnan returned to China.
One was as bright and vivacious as ever, while the other had left behind his old carefree ways.
Meng Xiangnan couldn't remember how she had reacted when she first saw Fu Jinyan that day. She only remembered that she still hated him.
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During the four months of fieldwork, Fu Jinyan was there as a business partner, leaving Meng Xiangnan nowhere to hide.
On the day a typhoon struck, they were forced to take shelter in the same house.
Outside, the wind howled. Inside, it was so dark they couldn't see their hands in front of them.
Fu Jinyan crossed the line Meng Xiangnan had drawn and pulled her firmly into his arms as she trembled uncontrollably, afraid of the dark.
Hearing his heartbeat, Meng Xiangnan slowly unclenched her hands from her skirt.
As she drifted toward sleep, she heard Fu Jinyan murmur, "Nan Nan, are Cambridge winters cold?"
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For architecture, "less is more." For you, "more is less."
