1
Everyone at the psychological counseling center knew that Ye Jinyun had a cleanliness obsession. His shirts were always perfectly smooth, and he buttoned them all the way to the top.
Though accomplished in his research, he was poor with words and disliked physical contact.
Today, however, he looked distracted, his clothes rumpled, his eyes fixed on his phone.
A gossip account's voice rang out shrilly: "Famous author Wu Chen is set to get engaged to his girlfriend, An Lingyan, in a month."
On the screen, a sweetly smiling young woman was holding a man's hand.
Ye Jinyun remembered her ten years ago, still wearing her school uniform and smiling at him just the same.
"You're the best, Jinyun-ge."
But when she left, she hadn't said goodbye. She had vanished into the vast sea of people.
"Old Ye... what's that on your neck? A mosquito bite?" His friend stared at his neck.
"Have you ever seen a mosquito bite that hard?" He gently brushed the spot, then looked at the young woman on the screen.
"It's her?" His friend looked stunned and pointed at the screen. "You know each other?"
"Can't you tell?"
"Isn't she getting engaged? Are you her...?"
"Oh." Ye Jinyun smiled.
Just last night, she had clung to him of her own accord, said she didn't love anyone, and then stolen his first kiss.
How could she act so naturally? How could she be heartless enough to stop loving him, too?
Ye Jinyun rubbed his ring finger. He should go to a jewelry store and have a pair of matching rings made.
Just for the two of them. He'd been thinking about it for ten years.
2
After losing her parents, An Lingyan thought her life might hold nothing but endless hatred. She would never fall in love with anyone again.
So she refused her older sister's offer to take her in. After graduating from the gifted program, she boarded a train north and struggled to make her way in the world.
She met the author and, for the sake of revenge, was willing to do anything, including marrying him.
But a week before their engagement, at a corner of a hotel, she stumbled drunkenly into a warm embrace.
"Xiaoyan? You... you've had too much to drink."
Looking at the face that had shed its youthful innocence, An Lingyan rose onto her toes
After ten years apart, she actually kissed him.
Reader's Guide 💐
1. The female lead is sexually experienced; the male lead is not. Neither has had sex with anyone else. Sweet, scheming female lead × sharp-tongued, honest male lead.
A childhood friend who arrives like a bolt from the blue. The female lead is two years younger than the male lead. She never legally married the second male lead, so there is no cheating issue.
2. This is actually a suspense novel.
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