How Could I Let the Years Slip By?

This story will not be paywalled. It's based in part on personal experiences. I started writing it years ago, and it has some potentially upsetting content. If you don't like it, you can leave. Thank you. (I'll revise it once later.) In the eyes of others, Ji Yunyan, CEO of the Ji Corporation, is like the moon and water. She has unmatched beauty, a stunning figure, intelligence, status, wealth... A perfect, enviable power player in City A, she ought to have found a fairy-tale romance. But five years ago, she was abandoned by the woman she'd devotedly kept company for over twenty years. The reason was simple. The woman, Ji Shiyao, told her, "What we have isn't love. I only think of you as a sister..." After five years apart and five years of torment, Ji Yunyan had come to believe her. She hated herself for still being unable to let her go. But five years later, Ji Shiyao appeared before her again. What was the truth? Would Ji Yunyan have the courage to uncover it and accept it? Would Ji Shiyao regret the choice she made back then? Or is love really a matter of choice? Different choices lead two people down different paths, to different destinations. And yet, because of a choice, they can find themselves on the same road again. Take Ji Yunyan's friend, the doctor Lu Chenyu. She had already decided to sacrifice her love and happiness for her parents and live the life of an "ordinary person," but then she met the passionate and bold Cheng Qin. They got together, though they agreed from the start that it was only temporary. But where will life's road ultimately lead? Premise: No matter how many difficulties lie ahead, as long as we stay true to ourselves, happiness will be ours.