Reunited with My Secret Crush Years Later

[Mature Leads | Workplace Romance | Secret Crush | Boss and Subordinate | Two Intellectual Equals]

[Branch Director x Head Office Boss]

Jiang Li lives for her work, but she was late on the day the head office leadership came to inspect.

She prepared to apologize. "Sorry, I'm..."

Before she could finish, she saw the big boss seated at the head of the conference table.

A shirt and tie beneath his black trench coat. The boy's face from her memories had grown more mature, and he now possessed the authority of someone who held power over everything around him.

She never thought she would see him again: the person who had stirred her heart back in high school.

*

Jiang Li is distant and cool with people, but her impressive resume has won her the leadership's favor. They assign her to present a project proposal to the big boss at head office.

When the door opens, the big boss is wearing a bathrobe. Water drips from his hair onto his neck, then runs down his body and across his chest, disappearing from view.

She thinks the big boss is trying to seduce her.

*

Jiang Li is a strange woman. She won't admit she likes someone, and she won't return their feelings, either.

Following her own faulty logic, she dates people who leave her unmoved.

But just as she is about to get started with someone, the big boss stops her under the pretext of discussing work.

Work comes first, so she follows him to the stairwell. The moment the door closes, he pins her against the wall, his breath scorching.

"If you really want to give up on me, the right thing to do is face me, reject me, hate me. Not get your heart racing every time you see me."

Beneath his fingers wrapped around her wrist, her pulse beats fast and strong.

[In high school, the heroine had a crush on the hero, but he never even remembered she existed]