Reunited Beyond the Storm

[Elegant, quiet singer × gentle, paternal investment prodigy]

[Reunion after years apart + rekindled romance]

At Peking University's opening ceremony, a flag bearer stood at the center of the field, smiling with all the confidence of youth, his handsome features and graceful bearing radiating charm.

The crowd on the field struggled to hold back their cheers.

Someone beside Mingyue joked, “Don't fall for someone like that. He's as cold as a block of wood, so aloof.”

Later, when they were together, Mingyue often went downstairs in the middle of the night to coax him.

In winter, Pei Xuqiu would be dressed too lightly, the corners of his eyes red as he asked whether she had fallen for someone else.

Mingyue rose onto her toes and kissed his eyes. “Pei Xuqiu, I didn't smile at him.”

Then, in their final year of college, a family upheaval left Mingyue with nowhere to go.

Yet at a bar, she saw Pei Xuqiu stub out his cigarette in a glass of wine, casually responding to everyone's teasing. “It's not like we're getting married. What's the big deal?”

So he really was that aloof.

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Three years later, when Mingyue first heard news of Pei Xuqiu, she pulled the box out from under her bed and burned everything in it.

The next day, a sudden downpour brought her face to face with the person she thought she would never see again.

He cornered her beside a low wall overgrown with red blossoms and kissed her until her eyes were red. “Please don't leave me again, Mingyue.”

The downpour soaked his suit. As memories of the past came back, Pei Xuqiu felt as if the little boat of his life had capsized.