Broken up, then reunited / Reunited at the beginning (blurb to be revamped) [These two really can make it work]
Gentle and quiet × cool and possessive | Older man guides him into becoming a lovesick ghost
Jiang Ying was down on her luck as a young woman. While studying in the UK, she had no choice but to become Bo Fengchuan's lover.
At the time, she relied on his money and influence to survive, while he used her to silence gossip and ward off his endless admirers.
Each got what they needed, and they treated each other with mutual respect.
But it was never a respectable arrangement.
The day news broke that Bo Fengchuan was engaged, Jiang Ying packed her bags early and left London before he returned.
They were apart for three years.
Three years later, after graduating with her master's degree, Jiang Ying returned to China, started a company and a band with her friends, and lived a simple, quiet life.
They met again at a wedding.
She heard that he was still unmarried.
*
Bo Fengchuan spent three years in the UK, with Jiang Ying by his side for all three. He always felt that what they had should be more than just companionship.
Things were difficult, and change took time. He risked half his life to get the chance to marry her, but she left without a word.
Over all the years he searched for her, he sometimes thought that if she could be happy without him, he could accept it.
But later, when he saw a man by her side, caring for her in every way,
he realized that he couldn't accept it.
*
At the wedding,
in an empty lounge, Bo Fengchuan's fingertip brushed over Jiang Ying's callused fingers.
"I didn't teach you to play the piano like that."
She said, "Mr. Bo, we broke up. Three years ago."
His fingers tightened around hers.
"I never accepted it. Not three years ago, and not now."
*
He is the harbor, she is the ship.
In this lifetime, only when she sails into his world can his existence have meaning.
[Only when she returns can he have meaning.]
Theme: Persistence is victory.
