Ten Years of Burning Embers

[A free-spirited young movie star ✘ a proud, venomous beauty]

The day she was brought back to Hong Kong was in winter. Heavy rain fell beneath a gloomy gray sky.

Her uncle named her Wanyu, saying it meant “the sky threatens snow at dusk,” but in the six years she lived in Hong Kong, she never once saw snow there.

Her uncle said girls should learn music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. When she was eight, her dance teacher introduced her to an open lecture by a music professor. She sat in a corner with her violin on her back, and among all those mature faces, she saw someone like this.

He seemed to glow as he played the violin onstage. That day, she heard someone say he was the professor’s son and the best violinist at the affiliated high school. She quickened her pace, thinking that she and this person would never have anything to do with each other.

Later, she drifted inland. As a teenager, she entered a music competition to win prize money, only to discover that one of the judges on that season’s show looked strangely familiar.

Backstage, the man stopped her and asked, “Have we met somewhere before?”

Tan Qiran never imagined that the long ten years would begin after that day.

[Modern romance + healing + bittersweet angst + showbiz + older man + push and pull]