[Second chance at love: Lu Xingchen & Lin Xiao]
Ten years ago, she was a princess adored by everyone, and he was the quietest shadow at her side. After she accidentally witnessed a moment she mistook for “humiliation,” she bought his dignity with a bag of money and crushed the first stirrings of affection in her own heart before she even realized they were there. From then on, the prickly girl fell into the dirt, and the gentle boy became an iceberg.
Ten years later, they meet again at the site of their old library.
She is a low-key landscape designer who specializes in healing the city’s “scars,” yet cannot heal the wound in her own heart.
He is a hot new name in tech, using algorithms to decode “memories,” yet unable to solve the one mystery that has to do with her.
He returns home successful and makes his moves step by step, turning her new project into a bargaining chip for a partnership.
“Designer Lin,” he says, adjusting his gold-rimmed glasses, his voice devoid of emotion, “shouldn’t we settle our old score?”
She thinks he has come to take revenge, ten years too late.
But when her client makes things difficult, he backs her with a contract worth a fortune.
When rumors smear her, he uses an iron fist to silence her detractors.
Just as everyone thinks this is a cold-blooded settling of accounts,
their retired homeroom teacher, trembling, brings out a yellowed class journal.
On the back of a note is handwriting she has never seen before, along with the price of a malicious lie.
It turns out that the youth they shared
was a script that had been rewritten.
She was not the perpetrator, and he was not purely the victim.
She was not the perpetrator, and he was not purely the victim.
They were caught in the same storm, passing each other in the dark, each bearing wounds of their own.
