Quitting Smoking [Broken Mirror Mended]

- Reunion after a long separation / mending a broken relationship / younger man / entertainment industry -

- His words are harsher than anyone's, but he loves more deeply than anyone (male lead has an aversion to smoke)

- She acts more ruthlessly than anyone, but loves more deeply than anyone (female lead is addicted to smoking)

On a street of glittering excess, a familiar license plate appears in her sight. The person in the driver's seat rests one hand outside the window. Three moles on his cool, pale wrist are veiled by the white smoke curling from the cigarette between his fingers, appearing and disappearing in the haze.

She walks over and takes the cigarette from his fingers, putting the remaining half between her lips.

The man in the car looks at her with an amused yet cold gaze.

The instant she looks into the car, she sees the woman in the passenger seat.

What a humiliating and ironic scene.

This is Su Leng and Song Yanli's reunion after a long separation.

*

Because of a bet, Su Leng pursued Song Yanli for an entire year before he finally got together with her.

Everyone thought she had gotten what she wanted and would cherish him even more. But on the seventh day of their relationship, she left the country without a word and cut off all contact with him.

She won him, then dumped him.

A breakup without a single explanation.

Su Leng thought this was her victory over Song Yanli, and that she was the one who had won.

But only after leaving did Su Leng realize she was already addicted to Song Yanli.

The craving had sunk into her bones. It would be impossible to quit.

She could never quit smoking, just as she could never quit Song Yanli.

*

At a drinking party, someone deliberately gives Su Leng a hard time.

A bottle of strong liquor sits on the table in front of her. She has no choice but to drink.

But just as she reaches for the glass, a distinctively masculine hand, its knuckles sharply defined, takes it from her.

Song Yanli drains the glass, and no one present dares to say a word.

Later, after everyone has left, Song Yanli comes to collect the price of that drink.

Su Leng is about to pick up the glass and drain it when he suddenly pulls her down onto the sofa.

She tastes the potent alcohol through their joined lips. Her breath and Song Yanli's tangle in a feverish haze, but he refuses to stop.

In the brief pauses, his words are seductive:

"The price of one drink isn't enough. I want you. That's enough."

It turns out she isn't the only one who can't quit.

Reader tips:

1. As the title suggests, the two of them eventually quit smoking, but neither can quit the other.

2. The male lead acts tough but is softer than anyone. He says, "I don't care about her at all," but the moment the heroine shows him the slightest affection, he carefully clings to her like a puppy. He's in a position of power, but with her alone, he's the one who submits.

3. The heroine's vulnerability and awkwardness, and her reason for leaving back then, are not about winning the bet.

4. A touch of healing, so it's a bittersweet sweet romance. Once they get together, they're sweeter than anyone.

Theme: Forever love.