Love's Lingering Stain

1. It was a get-together with friends, and by chance, Ruan Wu went along. As she passed the sofa in the living room, she casually glanced to the side. A man lounged deep in the cushions, a cigarette between his lips. White smoke curled around him, lending him a hint of debauchery and decadent allure. She didn't stop. Of course, she had no idea that his gaze had stayed on her ever since she appeared. After Ruan Wu left, Chen Jiangce grabbed the person beside him and asked, "Who was that just now?" "What, interested?" A forbidden, distinctly masculine glint came into his eyes, and an enigmatic smile played on his lips. 2. When asked about her last relationship, Ruan Wu summed it up in one phrase. "I must have been out of my mind." When those words reached Chen Jiangce, he fell silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed. His voice was hoarse as he said, "You're such a little ingrate." He had spoiled her rotten, and even after they broke up, he couldn't bring himself to say a single bad thing about her. That night, when Ruan Wu got home, she saw Chen Jiangce standing outside her door. His exhausted face managed a faint smile, and his voice was husky as he said, "I was the one who must have been out of my mind." *In this life, everyone has to love a bad person at least once. *But when we loved each other, we lost ourselves in it with our innocence intact, passionate and sorrowful. - My next book will be Halfway to Familiar. Add it to your collection! Duan Yinghuai was cold and aloof. People teased that after years of abstinence, he lived like an ascetic. His close friends, who knew him well, only smiled knowingly. Duan Yinghuai only put on that act in public. Everyone around him knew that the year he graduated from high school, he and Huainian had gotten involved. - On the surface, Huainian was the daughter of a housekeeper in the Duan family, while Duan Yinghuai was the eldest son, the distant and cold young master of the Duan family. They belonged to entirely different worlds. In private, their phones recorded every interaction. - Are you coming to my room, or should I come down? I don't mind kissing you in front of your mom. Pick one. - I don't want to pick. - I'll get mad, baby. You don't want to see me mad, do you? - "Halfway to familiar means I get what I've always wanted, and you give in with tears in your eyes." Theme: Meeting the right person at the wrong time, or the wrong person at the right time?