[Clear-Headed Heiress in Distress × Cocky, Alluring Heir|Power Couple, Mutual Healing|School Revenge|Feuds Between Wealthy Families|Both Physically and Emotionally Chaste]
The sun blazed down on the opening ceremony of the sports meet, and the short-sleeved uniforms left nothing to hide.
The jagged scar on Jiang Buyu's forearm was exposed to the sunlight. It was a mark she'd left on herself in a moment of losing control.
She never shied away from other people's curious stares or pitied her own wound. Composed, she walked across the noisy field.
Xie Jingye stood beside her, his gaze fixed on the scar at once.
His heart clenched, and a dense ache spread through his bones.
A thousand words of concern caught in his throat. In the end, all he said was:
“Jiang Buyu, I'm not always so easygoing either.”
When you hurt yourself, it makes me angry.
But weighed down by a blood feud, Jiang Buyu had no choice. She vanished from Xie Jingye's world for good.
The years apart were a hell for them both.
Without her, Xie Jingye was trapped in endless desolation and despair. A scar marked his wrist, too.
For years to come, he kept his obsession hidden beneath his sleeve, wrapped in a string of prayer beads.
After years of twists and turns, they met again in a sea of people.
The prayer beads slipped from his wrist.
The scar sealed away for years came into Jiang Buyu's sight without warning. Both of them were covered in wounds. They didn't need to save each other; they only needed to let one another walk into the world's ashes together.
It's beautiful. I'm so fascinated by Xie Jingye.