Sang Sang, Once Again

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"His love lies hidden in silence, making a deafening sound."

At eighteen, Yu Sang met someone she liked.

He was tall and slender, with handsome, refined features.

The first time she saw him, Yu Sang thought, If he's single, I want to marry him someday.

Unfortunately, he was taciturn and impossibly hard to pursue.

Yu Sang wasn't afraid. Her life had always gone smoothly, and when she wanted something, she went after it.

Her tenacious girlish heart only grew bolder with every setback.

Except for that one time.

She stumbled upon him talking with a friend.

He said, "Once she's had her fun, things will settle down."

Yu Sang stopped pursuing him.

Even when he left the country, she calmly said, "Have a good trip."

She never thought they would meet again years later.

By then, she was a rising star in the entertainment industry, and he was a financial-world upstart pursued by everyone.

Backstage at a banquet, she gave him a faint smile and greeted him with a sense of relief. "Long time no see."

The man's lips pressed into a thin line, and he lowered his eyelids, hiding his expression.

He said, "Long time no see."

"What happened after that?" Yu Sang's friend asked. "In a romance novel, there'd have to be some hidden reason behind what happened back then. He actually liked you, and he worked hard for years just to hear you say 'long time no see.'"

Yu Sang nodded. A calm smile rose on her lovely face. "Romance novels don't lie. He came back for me."

But...

Too much time had passed.

She'd lost all the courage she'd had back then and could no longer take a single step toward him.

"Then let me do it, Sang Sang."

From now on, I'll take every step., Li Zesen

[Reading Guide]

1. A proud celebrity and her once-beloved crush.

2. The title comes from the male lead's own words: "Seeing Sang Sang again. I hope my Sang Sang won't be sad."

3. In a nutshell: [In our tenth year of knowing each other, we finally found the courage to try.]

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★★★★Coming Soon: It's Him, So Far Away, HE ending teaser↓

After finishing the last painting in her Small Town series, Su Yao accepted an interview with a journalist.

As usual, the journalist asked her what had inspired her to create the series.

For some reason, she suddenly stopped giving the standard answer.

Gazing at the sparse curtain of rain outside the interview room, she said honestly, "Every painting in this series was inspired by a boy."

"For a while, I slept badly and couldn't fall asleep all night. Whenever I picked up a paintbrush, I thought of what he looked like in high school.

Actually, I hadn't seen him or dreamed of him in a long time before that...

As for Small Town,

the town was how he described his vision of a paradise to his friends one ordinary Monday when he was seventeen."

The journalist stared at the cottage in the painting, curiosity mounting. Looking at the young woman before her, her almond-shaped eyes lowered beneath the studio lights, the journalist tried the most direct question: "Then do you want to, or would you say this is a confession of, "love?

"It isn't," Su Yao said with a smile, knowing what the journalist was about to ask. She chose to interrupt and correct her. "When I paint someone, I'm saying goodbye to them."

[So it's goodbye, not a love confession.]

[When I paint someone, I'm saying goodbye to them.]

[And he's in that painting.]

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At the end of that day, after the interview, Su Yao unexpectedly bumped into someone in the corridor outside the interview room.

The person wore a black overcoat and gazed at her with strikingly beautiful, very dark eyes.

Su Yao met his gaze.

His voice was hoarse.

He spoke first. "I'm sorry."

Then he asked, "Am I a little late?"

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"Sometimes I wonder what I even like about him. When the sadness outweighs the happiness, I always feel like it wasn't worth it."

"I called a car today, and the driver who came to pick me up looked a lot like him.

A while ago, I thought a minor character in a web series looked like him, so I watched the whole thing.

I was watching a variety show and thought one of the singers looked like him, so I secretly listened to that singer's playlist on repeat every day.

When someone feels special to me, I always blur their face in my mind.

Blur it, make it clear again, then blur it once more.

So much time passes that I can't even remember that face, and I stop mentioning him.

Yet I still feel that he's special."

"I wrote him so many letters I never sent, but I never painted."

"Another year has passed, and I still seem to like a boy very much.

In the new year, I hope I won't."

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Theme: Let everything you can't move past become the past.