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The youngest daughter of the Nanjiang collectors, Zang Ling, first met her fiancé, Gu Yinan, when she was nineteen.

His white suit was impeccably tailored, and he wore gold-rimmed glasses. He was refined and distinguished, with a faint frostiness clouding his pale blue eyes.

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Later, their families arranged a marriage, and this cool, jade-like man laid down three rules for her.

The first was that once they had been married for a year, they would part on good terms.

Until she stumbled upon the man's secret.

Without his glasses, he was like a lake whose icy surface had just been shattered. His eyes turned wicked and unrestrained, shimmering with mischief. He tipped up the girl's chin, and in the deep, polite voice that was usually so courteous, said things that humiliated her to the utmost.

"I could never like someone like you."

"You're not pretty enough."

"Your education and family background are inferior to mine in every way."

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After they married, the two of them played the loving couple in front of their families, but kept their marriage secret. When they were alone, they were no better than strangers.

He rarely even returned to the home they shared.

Then one day, Zang Ling came home from a bar. The moment she opened the door...

The man glanced at her exposed waist without much expression. The young woman's red dress trailed behind her like a rose, her skin as white as snow.

He called her by name, his voice cool and clear as jade. "Let's lay down three rules."

Zang Ling was stunned. "Didn't we already do that before the wedding?"

"First, you can't come home after nine at night."

Zang Ling: ?

"Second, you can't get physically close to other men."

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A year later, the young woman held out her hand and asked him for their marriage certificate.

The man's dark eyes narrowed slightly as he pinned her against the wall.

"You want a divorce?" His voice was dangerous and intensely oppressive.

Zang Ling nodded honestly, thinking that a gentleman like him would never go back on his word.

Who knew the man would lower his head and kiss her forehead? His large hand smoothly interlaced its fingers with hers as she tried to push him away, pinning their hands against the wall behind her. In a low, coaxing voice, he said, "Lingling, help me take off my glasses."

The glasses slid down their silver-white chain. A sharp glint showed in the man's deep blue eyes. The possessiveness he had kept hidden surged forth like a roaring river, shattering every trace of tenderness.

Super sweet romance #Seven-Year Age Gap #The Icy Beauty Is Brought Down from His Pedestal

Mischievous, brilliant cartoonist heroine x calculating, sly older man

Reading guide:

1. Happy ending.

2. Marriage first, love later.

3. The male lead is Chinese. His eyes are blue because his grandmother has British ancestry.

4. Seven-year age gap.

5. The heroine's surname is Zang, not Zang. This will be explained later in the story.

6. Both leads are virgins and have only ever been with each other.

7. In the early part of the story, the heroine pretends to be weak. In the middle and later parts, the male lead supports her, and she becomes invincible and never loses. This is not a brainless wish-fulfillment novel! If you want mindless, feel-good wish fulfillment, please click the X.

8. There are many great novels on Jinjiang. If you don't like this one, you can read something else. There's really no need to waste time here on a story that upsets you.

Synopsis for Year After Year:

When Shi Sui first arrives at No. 1 Middle School, she feels out of place in the closed-off little town.

The day she meets Lin An Nian, the boy is wearing a white shirt. The breeze lifts its hem, and the sunlight gilds him with a golden glow.

The boy climbs over the wall and looks at her with his long, beautiful peach-blossom eyes. "Just pretend you didn't see anything, okay? Got it?"

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Later, the top student, Young Master Lin, has a little follower by his side.

She doesn't say much, but the school bully has her back.

He often teases her until her little ears turn red.

He is unruly and impulsive, charging straight ahead.

She is obedient and quiet, reserved and taciturn. They seem like two parallel lines that could never meet.

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After working up the courage countless times, she finally decides to give him a paper crane. The wind blows it to the ground. The boy walks beside her with his schoolbag slung over one shoulder and bends to pick it up.

His sparkling peach-blossom eyes curve into a smile.

"Suishui, this wasn't meant for me, was it?"

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Later, during plum-rain season,

Sui He walks onto the white jade bridge, her blue-and-white jade-patterned qipao swaying elegantly.

The plum rain falls softly.

The man wears an ivory-white shirt, looking relaxed and carefree. His long, narrow peach-blossom eyes shimmer as he holds an umbrella to shield her from the rain.

Sui He looks up. "Could you please move aside?"

His easygoing assistants stare in disbelief, watching as the man, who has always kept his distance from women and observed every etiquette, loses his composure for a girl for the first time.

The black silk umbrella slips from his fingertips. Fine rain drifts down all around them.

Lin An Nian watches her figure disappear little by little into the rain. His fingers clench tight, his gaze growing darker, as if he wants to make her part of his very life.

Suishui, this time, I will never let you go again.

A paper airplane falling from the sky, and a paper crane that was never sent.

#MutualSecretCrush

#RekindledLove#

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