In fifth grade, the quiet transfer student Ye Xiaowei becomes deskmates with the lively Xu Chenyang. After years as classmates, Xu Chenyang secretly falls for her, but his feelings come to nothing because Ye Xiaowei is focused on her studies. After the high school entrance exams, they go their separate ways. Xu Chenyang begins a new relationship in college, while Ye Xiaowei follows the “proper” path in life, returning to her hometown to become a civil servant and marrying Chen Hao, a man who seems perfect.
But the truth of their marriage soon comes to light. Chen Hao is ambitious but impractical. One business venture after another fails, leaving him deeply in debt, and he even cheats on her. After giving birth to a daughter, Ye Xiaowei resolutely divorces him and shoulders the debt alone while raising her child.
By then, Xu Chenyang has reappeared as a manager at a logistics company. Happily married but childless, he offers Ye Xiaowei warmth and support as an old friend. With each heart-to-heart and every moment spent together, their dependence on one another quietly grows. Faced with this tenderness that came too late, two souls trapped by the shackles of their own lives hover at the boundary between friendship and love. In the end, through understanding and restraint, they find the redemption and new beginning meant for them.
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This is my first full-length novel, incredibly realistic. There's no reincarnation, no time travel; it's just about the difficulties we encounter in real life: being cheated on in marriage by a scumbag, being heavily in debt yet still persevering. Life is tough for women in the new era. Let's unlock the heroine's destiny together. We hope everyone will offer more suggestions and support!