Liang Siyu had an experience she could never talk about.
Wonu Island, sealed off by a tropical storm.
She met a woman who was beautiful, refined, and hard to please. She wore a white outfit wholly unsuited to the island and managed to wreck the kitchen just trying to cook a pot of porridge.
She didn't ask the woman's name, and the woman didn't ask where she came from.
They shared a light by the sea wall, ran barefoot back to their cabin through the torrential rain, and leaned against each other as they listened to the waves on a night without power.
Liang Siyu always thought it was nothing more than an absurd dream shared by two people trying to escape reality on a remote island.
Forty-five days later, the storm passed.
Neither of them exchanged contact information.
They both assumed:
The fire on a deserted island could never reach the other shore.
·
Six months later, in Hong Kong City.
Liang Siyu was admitted to Heyi Hospital with acute appendicitis. At the cashier's desk, she ran into the woman who should have been left behind forever on Wonu Island.
The woman held a white hospital bill in her hand.
Looking down at Liang Siyu's real name, she called her by it for the first time: "Liang Siyu?"
Vee's real name was Yuan Ge.
They had once been so close, yet only now did they learn each other's surnames. With time, all that had happened between them faded away.
In the end, all that remained was a polite, "Thank you, Ms. Yuan."
Not long afterward, Liang Siyu attended a reception for the development of an international aviation hub as deputy operations supervisor.
The room was filled with elegant clothes and glittering jewels.
Across the crowd, Liang Siyu saw Yuan Ge once again.
The woman wore a black suit and stood in the middle of the crowd, with people constantly coming over to exchange pleasantries. Secretaries, socialites, and businesspeople came and went, but she never touched the glass of red wine in her hand.
Someone quietly introduced her to Liang Siyu: "That's Yuan Ge, the third young lady of the Yuan family."
Only then did Liang Siyu finally understand just who she had gotten involved with on the island.
She wasn't some heiress fallen on hard times.
She was a central figure in the Yuan family, exactly the kind of person Liang Siyu had been born to despise.
And yet she was also the Vee Liang Siyu had kissed senseless on that stormy night.
·
Everyone in Hong Kong City knows the Yuan family's third young lady is proper, composed, and levelheaded.
No one knows that at the end of an empty corridor, Liang Siyu pins her against the cold wall and asks in a low voice, "Ms. Yuan, when you kissed me on the island, were you thinking about the Yuan family's interests too?"
Yuan Ge looks at her, the corners of her eyes already red, but her voice remains stubbornly steady. "Liang Siyu, that's not what you called me on the island."
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Frank and forthright Third Miss Yuan x icy Deputy Supervisor Liang
Reader's Guide:
1. Set in a fictional modern-day Hong Kong City. Some professions, institutions, and place names are fictionalized.
2. A little bittersweet melodrama, a fling on a remote island, and a reunion in Hong Kong City. Happy ending.
3. Neither heroine is a paragon of virtue. Yuan Ge in particular puts her family's interests first early on, so she's no saint.
4. Long passages of dialogue will be rendered in standard Mandarin. I don't accept writing advice. Local friends helped with the Hong Kong City dialect in the story.
5. Women are meant to switch roles.
Theme: All reason is worthless in the face of a racing heart.
You, you, you [Rainbow Fart], so I was leaving tomorrow because Miss Yuan San got interested and changed her schedule?
Isn't our Sis the dumbest among the women1 [dog head holding rose in mouth] and we still pretend to know how to do it haha
v is so astringent that I can't stand it anymore [Shy] So why did you fall? Ms. Yuan, you have to chase me after you leave the island [Eating melon] I feel like there was something urgent when you left half a year ago? At that time, Yuan San didn't have the idea to continue [Glasses] I look forward to your appearance in the future [Kiss] You are so astringent
Ah, although many characters have the surname Yuan, I always used to call the protagonists by their surnames at first and couldn't help it [milk tea] [milk tea]
I'm so anxious ahhhh [Rainbow Fart] Liang is really a "I'll stop talking after thinking about it" x I feel that Liang Yuan's mode is so fresh and I haven't seen it in the teacher's previous stories! Liang Liang, you are so cute. I haven't seen you for a long time on the island. I want to contact you and have food. Liang Liang, don't you have any ideas? Liang Yuanyuan also has almost no direct psychological monologue, maybe it will come into play later [shy] She is probably already thinking about it
[Milk Tea] I think Liang must be very lethal when he opens his mouth
V is a straight shooter and good at fishing, but S can't parry at all [covers face and laughs while crying]
I thought Yue was Yue Ge in a playful way, but it turned out to be the name of the store...
Hhhhh It's quite interesting, Sisi in the eyes of friends - not good at social interaction
In fact, Sisi next to Vee on the island - sometimes she talks so much that she gets choked up, and she talks specifically about things that people don't want to hear (don't worry about how she chokes up) (it's too boring when she doesn't say what she should say~
Vee with social attributes buff - decent, reliable, patient & good at dancing
In fact, Vee next to Sisi on the island is too lazy to answer intrusive phone calls, has distinct preferences and loves to act coquettishly, can't cook but can kidnap people to cook for herself (but in a changing situation, good-looking is a constant, right? Dead fish(Hey)
Yuan Ge is so happy to relax.
She knew she would meet her at the cocktail party, so she deliberately put on a backless dress, and took the initiative to add her contact information. The third lady could do it.
V is so charming, who can stand this!
It's confirmed that Yuan Ge is the one who pays more attention to his health among the two (of course, it's hard to say whether Vee cares about his own health too) (random remarks x
It takes about ten minutes to walk, so close! If it tastes good, I feel that the frequency of Siyu cooking for himself will be lower than the frequency of cooking for himself when he was with Vee. No wonder the manager was quite familiar with Director Liang when he led people in in the previous chapter.
Www is the round pigeon who made a private itinerary with you Sisi. Please, of course it will switch back to Vee's true nature. I'm just curious if Yuange can scare a few people randomly if he is in this state in front of other people in the future. (Hey
Oh, this is a mistake. You think the fake name is more real than the real thing. The name you give people is not very kind (pointing x
The nickname "Dead Fish" is really amazing. Director Liang's performance of the main text timeline so far is really like a round pigeon poking it several times before moving a few times imperceptibly. During that round, he was completely flat and not moving at all (bushi)
You still have to rely on the round pigeon to serve straight shots! (Thumbs up
Dead fish, why haven't you taken the initiative at all? Now [touching head], we have to be the veteran.
You, you, you [Rainbow Fart], so I was leaving tomorrow because Miss Yuan San got interested and changed her schedule? Isn't our Sis the dumbest among the women1 [dog head holding rose in mouth] and we still pretend to know how to do it haha v is so astringent that I can't stand it anymore [Shy] So why did you fall? Ms. Yuan, you have to chase me after you leave the island [Eating melon] I feel like there was something urgent when you left half a year ago? At that time, Yuan San didn't have the idea to continue [Glasses] I look forward to your appearance in the future [Kiss] You are so astringent Ah, although many characters have the surname Yuan, I always used to call the protagonists by their surnames at first and couldn't help it [milk tea] [milk tea]
I'm so anxious ahhhh [Rainbow Fart] Liang is really a "I'll stop talking after thinking about it" x I feel that Liang Yuan's mode is so fresh and I haven't seen it in the teacher's previous stories! Liang Liang, you are so cute. I haven't seen you for a long time on the island. I want to contact you and have food. Liang Liang, don't you have any ideas? Liang Yuanyuan also has almost no direct psychological monologue, maybe it will come into play later [shy] She is probably already thinking about it [Milk Tea] I think Liang must be very lethal when he opens his mouth
V is a straight shooter and good at fishing, but S can't parry at all [covers face and laughs while crying]
I thought Yue was Yue Ge in a playful way, but it turned out to be the name of the store...
Hhhhh It's quite interesting, Sisi in the eyes of friends - not good at social interaction In fact, Sisi next to Vee on the island - sometimes she talks so much that she gets choked up, and she talks specifically about things that people don't want to hear (don't worry about how she chokes up) (it's too boring when she doesn't say what she should say~ Vee with social attributes buff - decent, reliable, patient & good at dancing In fact, Vee next to Sisi on the island is too lazy to answer intrusive phone calls, has distinct preferences and loves to act coquettishly, can't cook but can kidnap people to cook for herself (but in a changing situation, good-looking is a constant, right? Dead fish(Hey)
Yuan Ge is so happy to relax.
She knew she would meet her at the cocktail party, so she deliberately put on a backless dress, and took the initiative to add her contact information. The third lady could do it.
V is so charming, who can stand this!
It's confirmed that Yuan Ge is the one who pays more attention to his health among the two (of course, it's hard to say whether Vee cares about his own health too) (random remarks x It takes about ten minutes to walk, so close! If it tastes good, I feel that the frequency of Siyu cooking for himself will be lower than the frequency of cooking for himself when he was with Vee. No wonder the manager was quite familiar with Director Liang when he led people in in the previous chapter. Www is the round pigeon who made a private itinerary with you Sisi. Please, of course it will switch back to Vee's true nature. I'm just curious if Yuange can scare a few people randomly if he is in this state in front of other people in the future. (Hey Oh, this is a mistake. You think the fake name is more real than the real thing. The name you give people is not very kind (pointing x The nickname "Dead Fish" is really amazing. Director Liang's performance of the main text timeline so far is really like a round pigeon poking it several times before moving a few times imperceptibly. During that round, he was completely flat and not moving at all (bushi) You still have to rely on the round pigeon to serve straight shots! (Thumbs up
Dead fish, why haven't you taken the initiative at all? Now [touching head], we have to be the veteran.