After a Few Days Apart [Rekindling an Old Flame]

Cool, alluring heroine with no interest in her career × chaste, dignified, devoted man who lives for love

Three years ago, Jiang Qingyan was the girl Huo Jihan cherished above all else.

He taught her how to invest in stocks and take charge, brought her into the heart of the fashion world, and used top-tier resources to lift her out of the mud. He even promised her a wedding that would draw everyone's attention.

But the night before Huo Jihan proposed, she took every asset he'd given her, left behind a deactivated phone card, and vanished without a trace.

All she left him was a note saying she was sorry.

Three years later, Jiang Qingyan returned to China as a couture stylist for celebrities.

The styling studio she'd founded had made a name for itself, but after missing out on a key partnership, it was on the verge of closing.

To save the studio she'd built with her own hands, Jiang Qingyan barged into an exclusive investment gala in Beijing.

And the man seated at the head table, an aloof, dignified king of capital who could turn the world upside down, was none other than her boyfriend, Huo Jihan, whom she'd left without a word and broken up with unilaterally.

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Everyone knew Huo Jihan had a beloved white moonlight he treasured above all else.

He and his beloved had been inseparable for three years. He had overcome every obstacle and used ruthless tactics to force the Huo family elders to agree, personally acknowledging her as the future mistress of the Huo family.

Unfortunately, something happened that year: Huo Jihan's fiancée ran away.

After that, wherever Huo Jihan went in Huayang, no woman in a qipao was ever seen again.

At the gala, everyone looked from Jiang Qingyan, dressed in a qipao, to Huo Jihan's impassive face, and couldn't help quietly asking what their relationship was.

When the question reached Huo Jihan, he looked at her in front of everyone without a flicker of emotion and said only, "We're not close."

Jiang Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief, grateful beyond words that he didn't remember her.

But when no one else could see, he cornered her.

The man trapped her between the cold wall and his burning embrace. He brushed a strand of hair from her shoulder, tracing her features with his fingertips, his eyes filled with emotions she couldn't read.

His breath was so hot it nearly burned her. "Have you been mistreated while you were abroad?"

He said, "Jiang Qingyan, don't suffer where I can't see you. Remember, I'm the only one in this world who's allowed to bully you."

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Jiang Qingyan's family could be summed up in one sentence: a father who was a pain to deal with, a mother who remarried, and her, penniless.

Her father had squandered the family fortune, so she could only make ends meet by working odd jobs.

Until she met him.

He had power and influence, enough to be useful to her.

When he voluntarily opened himself up to her, Jiang Qingyan knew she'd succeeded.

What she hadn't expected was that her ruthless exploitation would make him willingly lose himself in her, even to the point of marrying her.

Jiang Qingyan didn't believe that kind of nonsense. She took the five million he left her and walked away, leaving only a note saying she was sorry before disappearing completely.

Until they met again three years later.

She thought three years had long since worn away their love and hate, not knowing he had never forgotten her.

What she thought was "We're not close" was simply his restrained, enduring devotion.

The barriers between them had long since turned into an obsession over thousands of days and nights.

They thought their reunion was no more than a brief parting, never knowing that the three years between them had turned love and hate into a longing etched into their bones, too deep to recognize.

One-on-one romance / second chance / reunion after a long separation

A little melodramatic / no misunderstandings / no love rivals

The heroine completely uses the hero / the hero is a hopeless romantic

*Blurb first posted on 2025.11.25, revised for the third time on 2026.2.17, screenshot saved

Theme: Love lasts longer than hate