The Years Since We Parted

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(A woman who has broken her vow of chastity) x a love-starved, unhinged yet loyal woman. Romance and boundary-crossing behavior develop after the relationship has ended, and both are adults. Seventeen-year age gap. There is a body-double plotline, with temporary one-on-one pairings and an eight-year age gap. No purity, no purity, no purity.

*Synopsis:

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At eighteen, Xiao Yu developed progressive organ failure while protecting her adoptive mother. The years that followed were a tangled misery, worse than death. As she neared the end, she decided to go see her beloved.

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Xiao Meng was the "saint" everyone called proper and self-disciplined, until one drunken night she pinned beneath herself the legacy her unattainable love had entrusted to her.

When she came to her senses, she realized what she had done. In a panic, she cut off all contact and avoided her.

Five years later, Xia Yuyu was already exhausted in body and mind. Her twin sister, who was also her beloved wife, had been attacked and left unconscious, and Xia Yuyu had to shoulder the burden of the family all by herself.

Meanwhile, she herself was embroiled in one scandalous affair after another, with gossip spreading throughout the empire. Xiao Meng felt that as an elder and an old friend, she ought to rein her in. Whatever else could be said, she should at least stop making trouble at a time like this.

The aircraft raced at full speed into the airspace. When Xiao Meng entered the Xia residence, the evening banquet was already in full swing.

Silk curtains hung low, the air thick with alcohol, and crystal chandeliers cast a decadent glow. Xia Yuyu reclined against a soft couch, surrounded by four or five scantily clad companions. One of them was lifting a glass to her lips. As she tilted her head back, wine trickled down her chin and disappeared into the deep cleavage between her breasts.

Xiao Meng sharply ordered everyone else to leave. Reunited with an old flame, she couldn't control herself.

In a hot, sticky hallucination, she suddenly heard the other woman say three words.

Xiao Meng jolted awake. "What did you just say?"

"I love you... You've been so good to me. Why can't I love you?"

Xiao Meng slapped her hard across the face.

In the holographic projection, Xia Yuyu slowly turned her face back, then crawled forward on her knees for a couple of steps and lifted her head. Across thousands of kilometers, she sighed, sorrowful yet satisfied. "I know I've done many things wrong, but I love you so much."

She thought this was the most absurd joke fate could play, until the one who died twenty years ago, that somewhat naughty, flirtatious unattainable love who never knew she was flirting, tore through time and space and stood before her again, alive and vibrant.

*Happy ending. No need to let me know if you drop the novel. Feel free to point out any awkward wording.

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A recommendation: Xia Yuxue, Xia Yuyu's twin sister. A devoted, aloof beauty x a stray dog who gives her his loyalty. Find it in my author page: Her Snowy World

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship