A Reply from the Deep Blue

(Navy pilot x reporter / wild young master x resilient ray of sunshine) Synopsis: Zhong Youning took a side job caring for an elderly woman who lived alone so she could save up to buy a home. The new job paid well, was easy, and was close to home. The woman she cared for was healthy and self-sufficient. All Zhong had to do was spend two hours a day chatting with her and keeping her company. But at their very first meeting, the woman mistook her for her deceased daughter. Zhong also gained an “older brother” who worked far away and never came home. The “brother” was little more than a name on her contact list. He rarely responded, and his wages had already been paid through next year. Zhong Youning didn't have a good impression of him. The woman missed her son so much she cried, yet he hardly ever came home. Then a work transfer took Zhong to a distant coastal city, where she had the good fortune to board the aircraft carrier that had made headlines across the country. In the vast, open sea, on the carrier's flight deck, the wind blurred her vision. A fighter jet shot through the clouds like a bullet and landed at high speed on the carrier's runway. Waves surged and the national flag whipped in the wind. A man in a flight suit descended the gangway. His eyes and brows resembled the ones in the old woman's family photos. Handsome and aloof, he looked down at the world as though from a great height. * He Yixiao had heard his comrades say more than once that the young woman from the TV station had a crush on him and kept sneaking glances at him from hiding. He was devoted to serving his country and had no head for romance. So he privately sought her out. “Stop looking. You're not my type.” She blushed and called him a creep. Later, he started dreaming about her. (No real-life inspiration. All characters and events are fictional.) Coming next: Unchanging, second-chance romance / cocky, handsome criminal police captain x gentle female doctor. Please add it to your reading list! Synopsis: Chen Xi thought the most outrageous thing that could happen to her as a doctor was a patient's family member threatening her with a knife. She never imagined that one day she'd be called to the police station. She gave the police every detail, from her name to her work history. When they asked about her romantic history, Chen Xi instinctively glanced at the silent young man sitting diagonally across from her. He hadn't looked at her once. His cool gaze rested on the cigarette case in his fingers. Chen Xi turned to the officer taking her statement and spoke softly. “I've only been in love once.” “When was that? How long did it last?” “After high school graduation. Fifteen days.” “What kind of person was he?” “...” Chen Xi pressed her lips together and glanced silently toward the young man. The man spun the cigarette case between his long fingers, then picked up where his colleague had left off. “Isn't the suspect, Gao Yang, your boyfriend?” Chen Xi was caught off guard by his deep gaze. Her voice trembled slightly. “No.” “Fine.” He curled his lip and looked at her thoughtfully. “Then tell me what the two of you are to each other.” * Chen Xi heard that after they broke up, Gu Fangchi joined the military. A few years later, she heard that he had died in the line of duty. Chen Xi was very busy then, but she still found time to visit a temple and burn incense for him. She wished he would be born into a good family in his next life, without so many hardships. And that he wouldn't fall in love with someone he could never be with. After leaving the police station that day, Chen Xi felt dazed. Then, late one night at a barbecue stall, she saw the man again, dressed in his police uniform and buying supper for his colleagues. At last, she couldn't help asking, “Weren't you... dead?” Streetlights shifted across his familiar, rugged face. His smile was difficult to read. “Well, I was thinking of coming to see you before I died.” “...” * When Gu Fangchi was seventeen, his family's company went bankrupt and both his parents died. The pampered young heir fell from grace overnight. Chen Xi held him and said, “It's okay. This will all pass.” Years later, at twenty-seven, Gu Fangchi had weathered every storm and still returned to her side. “You were right. Everything passes.” “But Chen Xi, you won't pass me by.” Theme: Love overcomes every obstacle.