[The person in her memories once helped her find freedom without asking for anything in return.]
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[One-on-one romance | BG | Happy ending | Bittersweet | He pursues her | Unfaithful heroine | The regrets of youth | Rekindled love]
[Reclusive, world-weary Jiang Yanhuai × golden boy Song Hong]
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At sixteen, Jiang Yanhuai lost the only person in the world who had ever treated her with genuine kindness. She got what she deserved: for decades afterward, her life swung between pain and even greater pain.
One ordinary morning, she ran into the person she had not seen in twenty-two years.
He was still radiant and dazzling.
She was clawing her way out of the mud, fleeing in a sorry state.
So this was the cutting remark that greeted her at their reunion.
“Jiang Yanhuai.”
“After all these years, how come your life is still such a mess?”
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She was the one who had lied to him, and the one who had decided to break up. But in the end, he was the one who left the country.
At fifteen, Jiang Yanhuai already knew that he and she belonged to different worlds. So every time they met again, she was certain he had come to get revenge.
But she had no pride left to cling to. Her daughter’s life depended on her setting her pride aside and giving in, so she gave in to Song Hong.
Yet the revenge she expected never came. When Jiang Yanhuai finally found the courage to open up old wounds and face Song Hong as an equal, she realized the young master had never wanted much. All along, he had only wanted to hear her say she was sorry.
“Jiang Yanhuai, all you had to do was say you were sorry, and I could have forgiven you.”
In the end, he was the one who gave in.
“But it’s all right. Even if you don’t say you’re sorry, I still forgive you.”
