[Modern realistic setting | Reunion after a long separation | Mutual salvation | 1v1 | Happy ending]
[A resilient weed in the mud x a favored son beneath the sun]
Xu Yinmo was twenty years old.
When she was two, her mother abandoned her, turning around to marry into a wealthy family and gain a new husband and child.
At eighteen, her father suddenly passed away, and fate dragged her into an abyss. In the end, she couldn't make it to the future she'd promised to share with Cheng Yan.
When she was out of options, the mother she hadn't seen for years "bestowed" a job on her:
A waitress at a high-end restaurant in the city's central shopping district.
She never dared to imagine that she might see Cheng Yan again.
That summer long ago, the boy had linked pinkies with her and earnestly promised they would go farther together.
But now, meeting him by chance, she could only huddle awkwardly behind the cash register, her fingertips trembling so much she could barely hold the scanner.
She kept her head very low. Embarrassment surged through her, like a rising tide, sweeping through every part of her until it was about to swallow her whole.
She owed him a promise she hadn't kept.
And Cheng Yan didn't recognize the disheveled young woman.
Only after that tall figure walked out the door
could Xu Yinmo slowly breathe out the stale breath she'd been holding for so long.
Thank goodness.
Thank goodness he didn't know that the one who hadn't shown up all those years ago was her.
"The world is a muddy place, but someone will always come walking through the light for her."
