The Utmost Tenderness

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[Urban workplace sweet romance + mature adults + rekindled romance]

Thread: I met a man at a bar who was totally on my wavelength, only to find out he was the big boss who parachuted into my company. What should I do?

First reply: Hello, Mrs. Boss!

Second reply: Hello, Mrs. Boss!

Third reply: Hello, Mrs. Boss!

Lu Xiaoyan's mouth twitched. She angrily shut down her computer.

*

Lu Xiaoyan had thought that this promotion would finally bring her a raise and send her straight to the peak of life. She never expected a princeling to parachute in, scuppering all promotions and cutting all the benefits.

Feeling miserable, Lu Xiaoyan went to a bar to clear her head.

The man she met by chance turned out to be incredibly delicious.

They were very much in sync.

In every sense of the word...

Anyway, once the sun came up, neither of them would know the other, so Lu Xiaoyan vented to the handsome guy about that legendary princeling who had parachuted in:

"Rich kids who rely on their parents are always bound to be ugly as hell, bald and potbellied!"

"Maybe he's impotent, too. That must be why his personality is so twisted!"

"Just wait till he gets here. I'll show him what I can do!"

The next day, Lu Xiaoyan walked into the office feeling refreshed.

At the company meeting, the department manager excitedly introduced their new big boss.

When she saw his face,

Lu Xiaoyan's eyes went dark.

Wasn't this the handsome guy from yesterday?

The man smiled at her from across the room, as if to say, "What did you say you'd do to me?"

Lu Xiaoyan: "..."

I'm writing it,

I'm writing it,

I'm writing my resignation letter!

*

When Shang Qinzhou returned to the country, a friend asked him at the welcome-home dinner, "Still not over your white moonlight?"

Shang Qinzhou drank without answering.

His friend changed the subject, thinking that after all these years,

even if his old flame were a fairy, Young Master Shang should have gotten over her by now.

But the words Shang Qinzhou didn't say were:

I've been thinking about her every second.

*

The very next moment, Shang Qinzhou's white moonlight came over to their table and said to him, "Handsome, I just lost a game of Truth or Dare, and I have to kiss someone. Would you be willing?"

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Advance preview: Spring Night Has Come

Throughout her adolescence, Xu Mian had a secret.

The secret's name was Gu Yu.

He was a law student two years ahead of her, a presence who always shone brilliantly and commanded the room at the podium. After lights-out in the women's dorm, conversation would wander around and always drift back to his name.

After graduation, lost in the vast sea of people, she thought that little glimmer of starlight had long since sunk to the bottom of memory, never to stir again.

Until, at a matchmaking dinner, the introducer had barely finished saying, "The other party is an excellent match, just a little busy," when Xu Mian looked up and saw the figure etched into her memory.

Gu Yu. Impeccably dressed in a suit, his gaze behind gold-rimmed glasses as calm as ever.

*

Three days later, they got married.

In the red-background wedding photo, Gu Yu's expression was calm, while Xu Mian's smile was a little stiff.

Looking at the marriage certificate, Xu Mian felt as if she were holding a time bomb, or living a dream far too extravagant to be true.

Their married life was like a silent film running on a preset program. Gu Yu was busy with work, and Xu Mian had her own career as an editor.

Until that rainy night.

Gu Yu came home late. Only a small lamp was left on in the living room. Xu Mian was curled up asleep on the sofa, still clutching the page proofs she had only half-finished reading.

Her arm unconsciously looped around his neck. She nuzzled his shoulder with sleepy dependence and mumbled a complaint thick with drowsiness: "Gu Yu... your tie is digging into me..."

He had been all the starlight of her first love.

The most unexpected surprise in a quiet marriage, and the happiness she now held safely in her arms.

Core message: Work hard to realize your own value.