He Came from the Old Days

Five years ago, Chen Xubai used a staged “accidental death” to sever every tie with Jian Yi with his own hands.

He thought time would help her move on. He never knew she would clutch his “belongings” and cry until dawn, relying on sleeping pills to get through countless unbearable nights.

Five years later, he returned, no longer the brash young man he had been, but the president of Chen Group. The golden couple of the past had become two strangers, distant and wary of each other.

She was a senior editor at Qinghe Culture. The light had gone from her eyes, leaving only an impenetrable indifference;

He was a rising business star with capital at his fingertips, yet he humbled himself to the dust before her, afraid even to approach in case he disturbed her.

He secretly learned to cook her favorite dishes, shielded her from harassment by business partners, and even used a project to pressure her into getting treatment. Again and again, though, her pride pushed him away.

When Jian Yi's prominent family background came to light, the Chen elders fawned over her. But she said, “I’ve decided to believe you really are dead.”

They had yet to watch the sunrise by the sea, and the library seat was still waiting. The “I love you” left unsaid all those years ago had become an impassable chasm.

He pursued her, filled with regret, while she resisted, wrapped in wounds.

Was this reunion, five years too late, the beginning of their redemption, or the start of another painful entanglement?