A Treasured Branch

【Completed 08.28】 Zhou Shengjin, universally acclaimed as the business world's youngest legend, has spent years in the cutthroat world of fame and fortune without a single scandal. Even now that he's reached marriageable age, he refuses to attend the elite matchmaking events. Everyone says he's an iceberg no one could ever melt. At the celebratory banquet, champagne flowed like a spring, and elegant guests mingled in their finest attire. A well-born young woman who had admired him for years approached with a glass of wine and tested the waters, half-jokingly: “Mr. Zhou, you're so indifferent to romance. Could it be that the rumors are true, and there's already someone ‘impossible’ living in your heart?” He swirled his red wine, dark currents that had gathered over many years surging in his eyes. “It's not impossible. The time just hasn't come.” Later, while Tan Zixi was searching for information on the computer in the study, she accidentally knocked a file folder off the desk. An old, yellowed photograph fluttered down to the floor like a butterfly. Beside the figure's back was a line of penmanship, its strokes still forceful, though time had faded the ink: 【Could you remember me a little, even just a tiny bit...?】