On Wen Yan’s first day at Era Culture, he ran into the CEO, Gu Chengyan.
The man wore a suit and gold-rimmed glasses, his gaze toward Wen Yan distant and unfamiliar.
But when Wen Yan lost control and grabbed his wrist
Gu Chengyan’s heart monitor suddenly sounded an alarm, his readings soaring into the danger zone.
The doctor examined him repeatedly. “CEO Gu, your heart is perfectly healthy.”
Gu Chengyan looked at the unfamiliar young man with red-rimmed eyes outside the hospital room, then slowly removed his glasses.
“Then why does my heart go haywire whenever I see him?”
The doctor was silent for a moment. “I suggest you get checked for lovesickness.”
Everyone at the company knew that the new magazine department assistant, Wen Yan, had gotten in through an extraordinary back door.
CEO Gu interviewed him personally, drove him to and from work himself, and even assigned him to the company’s most difficult editor-in-chief.
Officially, it was “career development.” In reality, his desk was in a glass room right next to the CEO’s office, where Gu could see him whenever he looked up.
Rumors swirled in the break room:
“I hear CEO Gu goes to the magazine department every day, supposedly to ‘inspect the work.’”
“What kind of inspection requires personally warming up someone’s milk?”
“And he watches him drink it, saying he’ll dock his pay if he doesn’t finish~”
Wen Yan clutched his payslip and finally stormed into the CEO’s office.
“CEO Gu, I’m just an assistant. I don’t deserve this kind of ‘special treatment.’”
Gu Chengyan looked up from his documents and leisurely pulled out his heart monitor report.
“The doctor says I need to stay in a good mood. And watching you work, ”
He lightly tapped the steady line on the report.
“Is the only thing that makes it beat normally.”
Then one day, Wen Yan found a yellowed photograph tucked inside an old book.
Seventeen-year-old Gu Chengyan, who was still called Gao Zhenxing, had his arm around Wen Yan’s shoulder in their school uniforms, with the surging Yangtze River behind them.
On the back of the photo was a line:
“If I turn into a fish and swim away, call for me by the river once every seven years.”
Today was exactly the seventh year.
That night, Gu Chengyan cornered Wen Yan at an observation deck beside the Yangtze River.
The man had shed his daytime composure, familiar passion surging in his eyes.
“Wen Yan, I’ve swum back.”
“This time I’m not a fish. I’m a person, someone who can legally marry you, love you, and stay by your side until we’re eighty.”
“So...”
He dropped to one knee, a river-polished pebble ring in his palm, worn smooth over seven years.
“Do I have to wait another seven years?”
Reading Guide:
One-on-one, happy ending, both leads have no prior relationships, extra sweet
Bossy CEO with a lovesick streak × Gentle assistant who knows how to handle him
Rekindled romance, but they pick up right where they left off; no misunderstandings last overnight
Contains a touch of fantasy (heart’s memories and a sense of destiny)
Workplace romance + sweet everyday affection, plenty of sugary moments
Theme: Keep looking forward, and you will bloom
