Second-chance romance | Mature leads | The murky world of the wealthy
Clear-eyed, guarded architect × scheming, dominant family patriarch
“I’ve been doing very well all these years. Really well.”
“Is that so? Then why are you and I standing here now?”
How self-righteous!
Fang Xinran swirled the red wine in her glass, listing one by one the things she’d just learned that this distinguished head of the Cheng family had done for her: a career opportunity to revive her architectural dreams, appearing in person as an old friend to offer his assurances, donating a fortune to her younger sister’s school, looking after her best friend’s family business…
He was certainly devoted.
But he could no longer be reconciled with the boy in her memories, the one who’d made a scene across the whole school for the sake of his dreams, the one she’d taught how to lie low.
“Don’t put the blame for your choices on me.”
“…”
“There was never any misunderstanding between us. There were only choices.”
“…”
Cheng Yeyang stared at the vivid lipstick mark on his white shirt. His raised arm still stung, and he was left speechless.
The truth was out!
People who think they’re clever are the best at letting others down. That promise, “If you decide to leave with me, tell me first,” had never been left unresolved.
But the person before him, with her impressive education and career and dreams flourishing in a foreign land, was no longer the gentle, pure-hearted girl who’d once been willing to throw caution to the wind, the one he’d kept yearning for.
And yet he insisted on falling for her, even as everything had changed.
Theme: Love always includes cherishing and wishing the other person well.
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