Wish

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1)

Yu Li has loved Cheng Zongnan since she was fourteen.

That day, he played bass onstage, bold and carefree.

It was only a fleeting glimpse, but she never forgot him.

When they met again years later, he had become a business tycoon. Impeccably dressed in a suit, he carried himself with an air of noble authority.

At last, unable to hold back her affection, she gathered her courage and approached him. "Uncle Cheng, people your age probably don't use WeChat, right?"

He gave her an amused look and handed her his phone. "Why not add me and find out?"

On the night of her eighteenth birthday, she ran away from home and called him, distraught. "Uncle Cheng, I have nowhere else to go."

He came as soon as he heard. Rubbing her head, he looked at her with both tenderness and temptation. "Want to come with me?"

2)

Cheng Zongnan was refined and laid-back, a man who indulged in life without restraint. In business, he was ruthless and decisive; in love, he always had the upper hand.

Yet this same pleasure-seeker would sit alone in a corner on nights of glittering excess. Beneath the shifting lights, he would hold a pen and work through a math problem on a sheet of A4 paper.

A friend teased him, "You're giving up your whole empire? Planning to become a math teacher?"

Cheng Zongnan took a photo of his solution and said unhurriedly, "I only tutor one particularly petty girl, one-on-one."

From then on, everyone in Beijing's elite circles knew that Cheng Zongnan had a young woman by his side.

He doted on her and indulged her, wanting to give her everything he had. The one thing he never gave her was a clear answer about how he felt.

Later, news spread that he was engaged. Unable to find answers in a relationship as hazy as flowers seen through mist, that particularly petty girl enrolled at a university far away and left for good.

A friend took the chance to needle him. "You've kept that canary for so long, and now she's just flown away."

He smiled unconcernedly. "Her wings have grown strong. If she wants to fly away, let her."

But when he discovered that she had blocked him on every platform, Cheng Zongnan finally panicked. He put all his work aside and went after her.

Standing outside her dorm, he got a new number and called her.

"I'm in class. Don't bother me," she said coldly.

"I'll wait until you're done."

That day, Cheng Zongnan waited from morning until night. Even when the rain came pouring down, he didn't leave.

Yu Li rushed over and shouted in exasperation, "Cheng Zongnan, what is the point of this?"

"There's no point to any day without you." The man who had always been proud and aloof held her tight and refused to let go, willing to humble himself. "Come back to me. Whatever you want, I'll give you everything."

3)

What Cheng Zongnan didn't know was this:

Yu Li had made two wishes.

Her fourteenth birthday wish: To see him again tomorrow.

Her eighteenth birthday wish: To have Cheng Zongnan.

What Yu Li didn't know was this:

Cheng Zongnan, who had never believed in Buddha, crossed mountain after mountain on a plateau 5,200 meters above sea level.

He hung prayer flags stretching 1,200 meters for her and made a wish to the gods.

May my girl get everything she wishes for.

A sly old fox x a willful young woman

12-year age gap | No intimate scenes before she is an adult

Intense push and pull, a simple sweet romance with a happy ending (if it isn't sweet, you can kill me), mutual pining comes true, healing each other, a little chasing after the girl (not a typical groveling arc)

2022.2.10

Sunset Falls into Utopia

At twenty-six, Meng Li let loose all the rebelliousness she had been storing up since adolescence.

She quit her job without notice, spent all her savings on a trip to Los Angeles, and had a one-night stand with a man.

It was dusk, on a beach somewhere in Los Angeles.

She lay on the sand as the not-so-gentle waves kept washing over her, surging across her mouth and nose.

"The tide's coming in," a man's voice suddenly said.

She opened her eyes.

The man lying beside her had a face made for looking at. Seawater soaked his clothes, revealing glimpses of his sculpted physique. He was so captivating she couldn't look away.

Before she could speak, he held her chin and leaned close. "Close your eyes."

Before the seawater could swallow them, he kissed her, becoming her oxygen.

-

After returning to China, Meng Li was pushed into a blind date.

Sitting in the cafe where they'd agreed to meet, she recalled what her mother had told her about the man.

Jin Shiyue, twenty-seven, born into an illustrious family, wealthy, and already a captain at such a young age.

With credentials like that, why would he need a blind date? Which matchmaker had made him sound so absurdly perfect?

Just as she was planning to finish her coffee and make a quick getaway, someone sat down across from her.

He wore a formal suit, perfectly pressed, his tie without a single wrinkle. He had a composed, distinguished air.

But his smile was suggestive and roguish. Meeting her eyes, he asked in a voice that seemed almost flirtatious in the moment, "By yourself?"

Meng Li hadn't thought she'd ever see him again.

Propping her chin on her hand, she parted her red lips. "There are two of us."

She pointed at her stomach. "There's one more in here."

"Mine?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Sorry, sir, but my future husband will be here any minute," Meng Li replied, not answering his question.

The man's casual, rakish manner vanished. Sitting up straight, he held out his hand. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm your future husband, Jin Shiyue."

-

She had thought theirs was just a fleeting affair, a limited-time game that would end at daybreak.

Who could have guessed that instead of going their separate ways, they would spend the rest of their lives together?

One night after they were married, Jin Shiyue suddenly asked if she remembered when they'd first met.

Her face was flushed and her breathing still unsteady. Distracted, she answered, "In Los Angeles..."

"No." He kissed her lips. "When you were seventeen."

At 6:30 p.m. on the West Coast, you appeared in the sunset, bringing romance as you fell into my utopia.

And you told me that I had already been your utopia all along.

tips:

A handsome, roguish, devoted big bad wolf x a seemingly tough but truly playful little witch

SC, the heroine isn't pregnant, she was just running her mouth

The heroine's perspective is marriage first, love later; the hero's perspective is secret love coming true

Coming soon: Chasing You

Jiang Yu was a famous figure at A University, with a good family background, good looks, and a reputation as a genius in the sciences.

But to everyone's astonishment, this golden boy fell for a free-spirited third-year student who was always changing boyfriends.

He spent his entire youth chasing after her.

When Wen Ke was hungry, Jiang Yu braved wind and rain to buy her a late-night snack.

When Wen Ke was sick, Jiang Yu stayed by her hospital bed all night.

When Wen Ke was in a relationship, Jiang Yu disappeared.

When Wen Ke was single again, Jiang Yu reappeared.

Then, shortly before Wen Ke graduated, Jiang Yu stood beneath her building. The usually confident young man was dead drunk, with a thick scatter of cigarette butts around his feet.

His eyes were red, his tall frame trembling. The smile on his lips was no longer gentle and carefree, only bitter and mocking.

"Wen Ke, I'm giving up."

They met again at the school's centennial celebration.

Invited as an outstanding alumnus, he had returned from overseas to give a speech.

The boy he had once been had grown up. His old, devil-may-care manner had settled into a composure and elegance etched into his bones.

Later, as he chatted with others, Wen Ke was about to go over and make small talk when she overheard them bring up the past.

She heard him dismiss it. "I was young and foolish back then. I've long forgotten about it."

After that,

Wen Ke quit her job, applied to work at Jiang Yu's company, and became his secretary.

At lunchtime, she made him a lovingly prepared meal.

After work, she deliberately engineered chance encounters to get his attention.

At banquets, she took the alcohol for him.

She cut off every potential romance around him.

She was constantly finding excuses to be by his side.

On Valentine's Day, she set a huge bouquet of roses in front of him. Jiang Yu finally couldn't take it anymore. "Wen Ke, do you know what you're doing?"

Wen Ke plucked a rose from the bouquet and pressed it to his lips with a coquettish smile. "Didn't you say you'd forgotten? I'm not just helping you remember. More importantly, I'm pursuing you."

Theme: Believe in love