Situationship to official relationship | Reuniting after a breakup | The chase to win her back
Blurb One:
Shen Nanjü could never figure out how she had ended up in bed with Shi Cheng after meeting him only twice. By every measure, it should have been impossible, and yet it happened.
Even harder to understand, they spent the next five years tangled up in each other's lives, like the steady rain that falls over this city every June.
"Is it because you're lonely?" She remembered asking him that the first time.
"Not entirely." After their passion burned bright, the man became especially gentle, letting go of his usual defiant edge. "You're different from the people here."
She wanted to ask how, but on a whim, she changed the question.
"Suppose I'm very old, and one day we meet again. If you see me, would you dare come up to me and say, 'I will always know you. I love your weather-beaten face now even more than I loved the way you looked when you were young'?"
Shen Nanjü wasn't a literary type. Perhaps she had simply fallen under the spell of The Lover in such a unique moment.
His answer was beyond anything she'd expected.
Blurb Two:
Shi Cheng was a workaholic who valued efficiency above all else and hated anyone or anything that wasted time.
Yet because of a woman who was as slow as a snail, always half a step behind everyone else, he was willing to slow down for the first time in his life.
By then, she had already gone all the way to Cambridge to pursue her dream, and had taken the initiative to end their five-year relationship that had never been clearly defined.
"Isn't it said that an orange is only an orange when it grows south of the Huai River? When are you coming back with me?"
This time, she was quick to respond. "Didn't you say ours was just a Shenzhen-speed relationship?"
For the first time, Shi Cheng learned what it meant to shoot yourself in the foot.
But it didn't matter. He could wait.
You once found your way out of the maze alone and ran toward me.
This time, I'll be the one to come to you.
No matter how many twists and turns lie along the way, I'll make this road smooth and run to you without hesitation.
Blurb Three:
Girls who were trained from childhood to be obedient and well-behaved are like crickets trapped in a basket. They try to jump out of that tiny space a few times, and when they can't, they give up, convinced they're incapable, never realizing there's a lid on top.
Shen Nanjü was one such person. Fortunately, after an unusual "coming-of-age ceremony," she finally jumped free and set out for a wider world.
How brief life is, like morning dew.
In this one life we have, may you never fear admitting your ambition, never lose the courage to lift the lid, and bravely live as your true self.
Weibo: @Bai Yimo Ah
Theme: An orange grown south of the Huai is an orange; north of the Huai, it's a snail.
