The Lover-Making Casebook

[Reunion After Years Apart + Reconciliation + Two Equally Matched Leads + Mutual Devotion]

Are eight years enough for you to realize we were never parallel lines?

On a sweltering summer night by the Qijiang River, the air felt like a silent farewell. Zhou Yushen held Lin Wan tight, his voice hoarse. "Wanwan, wait for me... Give me time." She saw the struggle in his eyes, but not the promise destined to shatter like broken glass.

"Miss Lin," Zhou's mother's voice was as cold as porcelain, "you and Ah Shen are parallel lines that will never meet." The next day, news of the Zhou family's celebratory banquet flooded the media. In the photos, he looked triumphant, as if that embrace had never happened.

Eight years.

She had gone from an intern at Minghui to its chief engineer, holding technology capable of shaking up the industry, while burying that summer night like a scar. When she spoke of Zhou Yushen now, all she felt was that he was "irrelevant."

Then a supply cutoff crisis erupted, and the conference room door swung open. Zhou Yushen walked in wearing a perfectly tailored suit, his cold, handsome gaze fixed on her. The hands she'd once secretly sketched were now resting on the nameplate of the decision-maker newly appointed by the group.

"Parallel lines?" His lips curved slightly. "Then I'll make them intersect."

Lin Wan's fingers paused. She looked up, her expression composed and professional. "Mr. Zhou, let's discuss work in the conference room."

She had learned long ago to draw an endpoint for lines that should never meet. But he didn't know that their line's end held more than old feelings. His fiancée, Liang Li, watched the patent with hidden interest, while a covert battle serious enough to draw in the state was brewing. And amid the contest, another pair of calm eyes was quietly fixed on her and that patent...