A Summer Dream in an Instant

Second chance at love | Marriage first, love later | They get married right away | Cool guy and cute girl

Cold, calculating CEO × Naive, adorable engineer

[The novel is complete. The full book costs just 6.12 yuan. Please support the official edition and leave a five-star review!]

At twenty-five, Lin Shunxia was caught by her ex-boyfriend on her way home from work.

An unfamiliar Maybach pulled up beside her.

The door opened, and a black umbrella covered her head.

The man's features were sharper and more handsome than she remembered. He bent down and, as if they had never been apart, pinched her rain-drenched cheek.

"I'm not around, so you just stand in the rain?"

Lin Shunxia didn't want to see him at all. She turned to leave.

But he grabbed her, lowering his long lashes to conceal part of his gaze as he stared at her intently.

Then, just as inexplicably as when he had confessed to her at eighteen, the man took out a diamond ring, seized her left hand, and slipped it onto her ring finger.

"Marry me."

Lin Shunxia was startled, but couldn't break free.

Her eyes turned red. She kicked him and said,

"Get lost."

-

Lin Shunxia's ex-boyfriend, Fu Jingye, had gone to the same high school as her.

Back then, they really were two people who had nothing to do with each other.

Fu Jingye was the heir to the Fu family, the most powerful family in Manhai City. He was flawlessly handsome, born to stand at the very top and be admired by everyone.

She, on the other hand, was born into an ordinary family. She got good grades, but otherwise was probably quite unremarkable.

Then one afternoon, the boy leaned against the wall and bent slightly toward her. His lashes drooped, and he smiled lazily as he said in a low voice,

"Lin Shunxia, do you want to go out with me?"

It made no sense to her, so she ducked under his arm and tried to leave.

But Fu Jingye grabbed her wrist.

"Is that a yes or a no?"

Lin Shunxia didn't understand what dating meant. She just wanted to get home quickly, so she nodded in confusion.

That summer, their first love began impulsively and ended just as abruptly.

-

The ring wouldn't come off.

She couldn't get rid of her ex-boyfriend.

After they got their marriage license, a new neighbor moved in next door to Lin Shunxia.

Fu Jingye provided Lin Shunxia with a brand-new gaming room, regular dinners, and a ride home on every rainy day.

He made her feel that married life actually wasn't all that bad.

Until one late night after their wedding, Fu Jingye pinned her against the sofa, leaning close. His long, straight lashes lowered, the corners of his eyes faintly red, and he questioned her with an almost childish intensity:

"Lin Shunxia, we're married now. Why are you still like this?"

"Have you ever liked me at all?"

Lin Shunxia couldn't understand. She asked in confusion,

"But we broke up seven years ago, didn't we?"

"You said you couldn't go three days without seeing each other when you were dating."

"...You never even said goodbye to me."

The man was silent for a long time.

He looked into Lin Shunxia's eyes and slowly brushed her cheek. At last, he said in a low voice,

"Lin Shunxia, we never broke up."

"...And I did say goodbye to you."

-

Manhai had a summer that seemed both long and fleeting.

For a time, Lin Shunxia thought it was all a dream.

Cool guy × cute girl

CEO × engineer

Reading guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both are sexually inexperienced and devoted only to each other.

2. The story begins with their reunion and uses flashbacks to their high school days, which will be clearly marked.

3. Difference in status and physique, bittersweet and sweet. Not a pursuit-of-wife story or an angst story. Fundamentally, it's a sweet story about two people saving each other.

4. The heroine has a special background, and the blurb contains a narrative misdirection. The hero loves her from beginning to end, and there is a reason he left. Please don't rush to judgment!

Theme: I want you to understand what makes me different.