Love and hate intertwined / Push and pull to the limit / A bond that refuses to break
National broadcaster host × young master from the capital's elite circle
Passionate and principled × naturally cold-hearted
Xu Tang was with Xie Bozhou for three years.
In the end, she reached one conclusion: Xie Bozhou probably didn't love her.
When Xu Tang first met Xie Bozhou, she was a news anchor. Her colleagues had pushed her to the back of the group, but when she looked up, she saw Xie Bozhou.
At the time, Xie Bozhou was attending an interview. He was just a distant glimpse amid the crowd, yet that glimpse turned Xu Tang's life upside down.
The next day, Xu Tang appeared in the studio.
And on the other side of the glass sat Xie Bozhou.
Xu Tang knew that someone like Xie Bozhou had been born to stand above everyone else. But she still wanted to try, to see whether a man like him would ever shed tears for love.
*
Xu Tang was stubborn. Even when the two of them were at their most estranged, she refused to back down.
In the end, Xie Bozhou was the one who went to placate her, spending a fortune at an exhibition to bid on the South Asian pink diamond renowned as a symbol of "true love."
Their friends all laughed at Xie Bozhou for finally ending up like this.
Xie Bozhou didn't deny it.
That day, Xu Tang didn't know whether the pink diamond was too dazzling or Xie Bozhou's gaze too intense, but she found herself entertaining the delusion that he loved her.
*
Three years gave Xu Tang the answer to the question she'd asked herself at the start.
Xie Bozhou would never give anyone his heart, and he would never love anyone.
After running into a wall, Xu Tang turned back.
She left Xie Bozhou without hesitation.
Watching Xu Tang walk away with such resolve, Xie Bozhou felt as if he were seeing her for the first time.
That was just who Xu Tang was. When she loved, she gave her whole heart; when she stopped loving, she wouldn't spare you a glance.
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Later, Xu Tang appeared on a national broadcaster's program. She held the microphone herself, and the camera followed her movements.
The lights shone on her, but when she looked through the glass again, she felt a little dazed.
At dinner that evening, Xu Tang saw Xie Bozhou at the head of the table.
She understood the purpose of the gathering, too.
Xie Bozhou didn't look up. He tapped the table.
Xu Tang went over and sat down.
The quiet room held only the two of them.
"Xie Bozhou, why go to all this trouble?" Xu Tang couldn't understand why he'd gone to such lengths.
Xie Bozhou turned his head to look at Xu Tang.
Over the years, she had grown more graceful and poised, carrying herself with an ease that gave no hint of how vulnerable she had once been.
Xu Tang didn't want to waste time. She stood up to leave.
But Xie Bozhou held her down with one hand. "Xu Tang, was my love for you really only a little?"
"When you left me, did you feel even the slightest reluctance?"
"The cold-hearted love most deeply; the clear-headed fall the hardest"
[Reading Guide]
One-on-one, both are each other's first and only
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Theme: Hate without reservation, love with all your heart
