Cedar Embers

Seven years is enough to turn love into the most bone-corrosive poison and completely crush and reshape a person. Chen Wanqiu woke up in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Munich with a lingering hangover, but lying quietly on the table was a keepsake from seven years ago - a ginkgo bookmark. The vague outline of the figure last night pointed to the lover, Jiang Huai, who left without saying goodbye and never heard from her again. Reunion, caught off guard. He is the heir who controls a huge business empire, and she is the purser who travels to and from an altitude of 30,000 feet. An accident where red wine was spilled, the appointment of "assistant", and a cold contract forced her back into the golden cage he carefully constructed. Old feelings are like ashes, resurrected by hatred and unwillingness. He remembered her knees that were afraid of the cold, her old stomachache, and her design dream of scribbling. He gave her a silk scarf that matched his tie, but he said it lightly in front of others: "Friends who studied abroad, condescend to be my assistant." In the dark night, the trembling of her forehead when her fingertips brushed her hair, the silent gaze when she put on clothes in the pavilion, the hot tears when their foreheads touched... Every time she got close, it was a sober sinking, and on the old road full of thorns, he tried to find the rose that had bloomed freshly in the past. His world has strict barriers: a sunny soon-to-be fiancée from a well-connected family, a talented design director who works side by side, and huge and cold family responsibilities. Her world is full of scars: the degree she was forced to give up, her mother who died of disappointment on her bedside, and the unborn life that was buried in despair and became her deepest secret. When the dusty study room is accidentally pushed open, the film of the back of the rainy alley in Munich and the slightly old wooden