[Two male leads + workplace + groveling pursuit + coercion + winning him back + rekindled love]
Obsessive, unhinged top VS cool-headed, rational bottom
Back in college, I pretended to like Gu Yan so I could join his research group.
After dating him for a month, I dumped him.
Eyes red, he begged me not to leave. I said:
“I’ve been using you from the very beginning. Stop disgusting me.”
We went our separate ways for eight years.
When I woke up, no, when I woke up eight years later,
he had become the client-side CEO I couldn’t afford to offend.
He tore up my proposal in front of everyone and trampled my dignity underfoot.
He said, “Shen Yan, you owe me. I’m going to make you pay a hundred times over.”
I thought he hated me to the bone.
Until one day, I happened to see a photo of the wooden carving from back then still saved on his phone.
On the back was a line I had never seen before:
“I accepted being used by you.”
That was when I finally realized he had waited eight whole years to hear me say, “I’m sorry.”
The person Gu Yan hates most in this life is Shen Yan.
The person he can’t let go of is also Shen Yan.
When they meet again eight years later, he swears he’ll make him regret it.
But the moment he sees Shen Yan kneeling before him, eyes red
he realizes what he wants more than anything is to pull him up, hold him close, and say:
“Don’t cry. I forgive you.”
