A Single Spark Starts a Prairie Fire

[Complete] Xu Xing and Yuan Ye grew up together as childhood sweethearts. At her bedside, Yuan Ye looked down at the young woman who had just turned twenty. "Will you marry me?" Xu Xing nodded without hesitation. Marrying him was something she had longed for, something she could never have. How could she refuse? - It was said that Yuan Ye, the eldest young master of the Yuan family in City B, took no interest in anything. Behind his gold-rimmed glasses, his eyes always held a careless smile, as if nothing could catch his attention. One night after they were married, Xu Xing asked, "My graduation ceremony is tomorrow. Will you come?" The man lounged against the bed, a cigarette between his teeth as he looked at his phone, and casually agreed. The next day, Xu Xing waited at school all day and all night. She thought she could move him. But only after losing both body and soul did she finally understand that love couldn’t be forced. No matter how low she stooped, she couldn’t compete with a single word from that woman. Xu Xing smiled faintly, her heart finally cold. She left behind a divorce agreement and vanished without a trace. - Xu Xing returned, reborn from the ashes, and took over Xing Chen. Standing before the floor-to-ceiling office window, she watched the stubborn man waiting below. His familiar, low voice came through her headphones. "What will it take for you to forgive me? Hmm?" She smiled faintly, her expression calm and unreadable. "Mr. Yuan, are you here to congratulate me on my engagement?" Silence fell. After a long moment, she heard his ragged breathing. He practically begged her. "Xing Xing, see me. Please, just let me see you once." [The regretful chase] [Angst] My other novel, Summer Night's Humidity, is now underway. Yu Nan spotted a man she liked at a bar. She hooked a finger into his loose tie, and the two of them spent the night together at a hotel. Yu Nan knew at a glance that they belonged to different worlds. So what? In the adult world, people just take what they need from each other. Afterward, neither of them was quite satisfied, and they ended up sleeping together in every hotel in the capital. Yu Nan was busy with work. One night, as she was writing a proposal, the man tossed it aside. "I’ll help you write it later. Now, get up here and sit down." After her work plans were disrupted yet again, Yu Nan decided the man had too big an appetite. She deleted his contact information and never got in touch again. * She heard that a new boss had been parachuted in from above, and everyone in the office was on edge. Carrying the financing proposal she’d finally finished, Yu Nan knocked on the new boss’s office door. Her new boss’s voice was deep and pleasant, but strangely familiar... Yu Nan looked up. The man she’d slept with was sitting behind the desk, looking at her with a cold expression. Theme: You have to love yourself first before you can love someone else.