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1. Jiang Wan and Cheng Ye's names were never meant to appear together.
The former was gentle and quiet, the well-behaved student in everyone's eyes. She seemed indifferent to everything, yet cared about it all. The latter was born to shine, wild and unrestrained, and everything seemed inconsequential to him.
She wrote his name on her draft paper over and over, pretending she didn't care about him, while secretly glancing his way every time he appeared.
They ran into each other at a bar. During a truth game, Cheng Ye had to pick a girl there who fit his type.
Leaning back on the sofa, he said nonchalantly, "Jiang Wan, I guess."
The people around them began hooting. From that night on, Jiang Wan and Cheng Ye became the couple everyone tacitly acknowledged.
No other girls appeared by his side anymore. Everyone thought the seasoned womanizer had turned over a new leaf and fallen hard.
At his birthday party, Jiang Wan stood outside with a gift she hadn't given him yet, watching another girl sitting in his lap.
Without much explanation, Jiang Wan and Cheng Ye broke up just as tacitly as they'd gotten together.
2. Years later, they met again. He was now a rising star in the business world, with countless people clamoring for his attention.
She had long since shed her youthful innocence, handling herself with easy confidence and charm.
"Jiang Wan, if you can land the guy across the room, you'll be a wealthy wife in no time."
She glanced back at Cheng Ye on the sofa in the distance and smiled. "Men are all pretty much the same."
She said it lightly, as though she had plenty of experience.
In front of everyone, Cheng Ye bent down and whispered coldly in her ear, "Do you know what I like most about you?" He paused. "You never blink when you lie."
○ From college to adulthood / she secretly loves him / both are sexually inexperienced / a little pursuit of the wife, but not the heart-wrenching kind
○ Readers who want a spotless male lead, please don't read: the male lead has a romantic past
○ It's just a novel, so don't make personal attacks / web fiction isn't realistic literature, please keep that in mind
Theme: Freedom in love
