Calculating the Day of Return

Name: Calculating the Day of Return
Author: An Lianyu

算归期

by An Lianyu (安恋钰)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 275k Words
Genre: Two Male Leads
Updated: 19h ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

The Gu family of Jiangnan, a silk-trading dynasty of three generations, fell overnight.

Gu Wantang was the useless young master everyone in the city knew, spending his days amusing himself with birds and listening to stories. His greatest dream was to leave with his sworn elder brother, Xie Yanting, once Xie took over the family business. On the night his father died suddenly, a cup of “poisoned tea” sent Xie Yanting down the doomed road to exile three thousand li away. Gu Wantang crawled out of a thin coffin with nothing but the abacus Xie had left behind and two words: “Wait for me.”

Everyone said Xie Yanting was dead.

Only Gu Wantang refused to believe it. He went into hiding and began by learning to move the first bead on an abacus. He was cheated, humiliated, and had bones broken. He swallowed all his blood and tears. Seven years later, the wastrel who couldn’t even count out one tael of silver had become the “stone-faced Master Gu” of Jiangnan.

In the seventh year, Gu Wantang finally saw Xie Yanting. When he finally rushed to him, all he had time to do was trace three secret signals into Xie’s palm.

“You told me to wait. What gave you the right to leave first?”

“Don’t look back.”

Seven years of waiting, and all he got was a wordless ending.

Xie Yanting was still clutching something in his palm.

And he would never tell anyone what that last thing was.

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