The Promised Land [Rekindled Romance]

A high-flying career woman who's in denial and avoids intimacy x a gentle, sunny, scheming, caring professor

First-love couple rekindle their romance after a breakup

Amman, Jordan.

Jian Ciyin is sent abroad on a business assignment, where she unexpectedly runs into someone she didn't want to see.

Or rather, no one wants to run into their high school ex-boyfriend years after graduation.

Especially when she was the one who had coldly dumped him, claiming that long-distance relationships never lasted, and that they each had their own futures to pursue, so they should go their separate ways.

From then on, they grew further and further apart, and eventually stopped hearing from each other.

It's now the tenth year since they met.

She graduated early and started working. She's already a regional manager at her company, overseeing an entire region.

After years of studying abroad, he has finally earned two PhDs and become a new professor at a university.

Now in middle age, neither of them ever expected to reunite in this small country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

He asks,