Wen Zhi only does one kind of business: helping people bring things to an end. Breakups, ending friendships, resignations, saying goodbye to a city: she turns them into ceremonies. She chooses the venue, plans the proceedings, prepares a closing letter, and leaves the final page for the client to sign by hand. In three years, she's held 108 ceremonies, and people in the business say she knows how to make a clean break.
She has only one rule: she will never hold the same ceremony for the same person twice.
Then she receives a contract. The fee is seven figures. The project is called The Ceremony of the Century. The lead's name is blank, and so is the bride's. The client's contact is listed as two characters: Pei Yan, the man in the whole city best at arranging beginnings. He's held a thousand weddings without a single mishap.
Wen Zhi turns the contract over and stops.
Three years ago, she held a farewell ceremony for herself. The signature line was blank, but her words were written somewhere else:
"I could protect him, but not myself."
The account she's spent three years trying to settle suddenly points to someone else.
And he's been looking for her for three years. The day he found her 107th ceremony, he couldn't bring himself to keep counting, afraid he'd reach the end.
She specializes in endings. He insists on giving her a happy ending.
