Old Wood Meets Spring

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1.

The most unconventional thing Su Yixian had ever done was walk into Shen Zhixing's room the night before she left to study abroad.

The next day, before dawn, she was about to leave with her luggage when Shen Zhixing stopped her at the airport and pulled her into his arms.

"You have to take responsibility for what you do. I taught you that a long time ago."

2.

Shen Zhixing was the future head of the Shen family. He was ruthless in business, but privately restrained and celibate, keeping women at a distance and turning down countless arranged marriages.

One day, people in their circle suddenly noticed that a young woman had appeared by his side.

In early September, he turned down an invitation to an industry summit to take her to school.

In late December, he politely declined a business tycoon's wedding banquet so he could help her catch up on advanced mathematics.

Whenever people invited him out, he usually refused three times in a row: "I'm not going. I'm busy. I'm not interested." His reasons were always bizarre: She was afraid of the dark, she was afraid of thunder, she didn't know how to water the flowers so he had to go back and do it...

Then, at some point, Shen Zhixing suddenly started attending social events often, and was always sitting in a corner drinking alone.

A friend couldn't help asking him, "Where's that young woman from your family?"

"She went abroad to study."

Shen Zhixing glanced at the time in the U.S. Central Time Zone on his phone, immediately set down his glass, and said, "She should be awake. I'll call her first."

3.

After Old Master Shen passed away, the Shen family descended into chaos, with everyone clamoring to divide the estate.

The eldest Shen brother berated Shen Zhixing for his improper conduct, accusing him of having an inappropriate relationship with the young woman Old Master Shen had chosen for his eldest grandson.

Shen Zhixing slapped a bright red marriage certificate onto the table. "What young woman? She's your sister-in-law."

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*Eight-year age gap; the female lead is an adult

*2021.5.2

● Next novel: Wish Candy

---------- Wish Candy --------------

Blurb:

1.

Jiang Yu attended her younger brother Jiang Xun's senior-year pledge rally and happened to glimpse the wish he'd written and put in a wishing bottle: "Hope to be with her after the college entrance exam? You're in your last year of high school and still thinking about girls. You've got some nerve."

Jiang Xun's ears turned a little red. Then he tucked the slip of paper into the wishing bottle without a word.

Watching him, Jiang Yu sighed, "Ah, the restless years of youth."

But half an hour later, someone dug her own youth out from beneath a tree with a shovel.

The slip of paper she'd written in her senior year of high school lay exposed in the sunlight, painfully conspicuous.

The students who had come to watch rushed over. Before Jiang Yu could even blush, a girl in a school uniform folded the paper and shouted, "Stop looking. It's being returned to its owner."

Just as Jiang Yu was about to reach for it, the paper landed in someone else's hand.

"Teacher Song, did she ever win you over?" a student asked boldly.

"She did, then dumped me." Song Zhiyu acted as though Jiang Yu weren't there, raising a hand to put the slip of paper in the pocket over his left breast.

2.

In the first year after meeting Song Zhiyu, Jiang Yu had three wishes:

1. Get into the same university as Song Zhiyu.

2. Have her name appear beside Song Zhiyu's on the college entrance exam honor roll.

3. Win Song Zhiyu over.

Later, all three of her wishes came true.

Jiang Yu won him over not long after writing down her wish, but she was the one who got him started and then abandoned him.

Jiang Yu and he got into the same university, but she went abroad after just one semester.

Their names appeared side by side several times. The longest-lasting instance was on their marriage certificate.

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