**“The restrained, clear-eyed painter × the obsessive, devoted business magnate”**
|Mutual pining × Second chance romance × Marriage of convenience × The husband’s long road to winning her back|
**“Five years ago, all they needed was one confession. Five years later, all they needed was one honest conversation.”**
On graduation day, she thought he had chosen someone else, while he thought she had never cared for him.
A misunderstanding born of sheer bad luck kept Nuo Yuxi and Pei Jinyi apart for five years.
She went abroad and became a painter, understated yet dazzling.
He took the reins of a financial empire, but kept the ring he had never given her.
When they met again, he handed her a marriage agreement with a perfectly respectable explanation.
“Why me?” She looked up, unconsciously rubbing the old bracelet on her wrist.
“We’re classmates. We should help each other out.” His voice was calm, but he couldn’t conceal the turmoil in his eyes.
(He didn’t dare say it: only she could make him lose control.)
Seven hundred nights of “pretend marriage” became their most dangerous test.
Then the agreement expired, and the childhood friend’s arrival shattered the illusion.
She smiled, wished them well, and walked away, unaware that he was racing madly toward the airport.
“Nuo Yuxi!” Amid the screech of brakes, he lay covered in blood, still clutching the love letter he had written five years too late.
When they met again, his voice was hoarse. “Yuxi, do you know that I love you?”
Her fingers trembled, and at last, tears fell. “Now I know... But did you ever know that I love you too?”
“This time, neither of them is allowed to run away.”
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