Dedicated to Tenderness

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In the vast city of Jing, what were the odds of two people meeting? For Lu Wenyu, it was 99.9 percent. A reunion after years apart was a fantasy she had never even considered.

Especially when it was someone she had admired and looked up to in her youth, so many years ago.

Simply staying alive was already hard enough for her. She only wanted to live out her life in peace, be herself, love herself, and love her doting grandfather and friends. That was enough.

Even if they met again, she never imagined it would be as surreal as something from a novel.

She... was mistaken for a mistress, had red wine thrown in her face, and even got slapped...

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When they met again, the other party turned out to be the investor!

They'd agreed she would only be translating, and that he wouldn't ask about work. He didn't ask about work, but somehow she ended up being the one in trouble!

Jiang Yixing: "Ms. Lu! If I remember correctly, your surname used to be Qin. How did you change your name in the few years we were apart?"

"Mr. Jiang, you must be joking. My father is surnamed Lu, so naturally I'm Lu as well."

"Is that so? I seem to remember you studied finance. Why are you working as a translator now?"

Lu Wenyu: "It's what life has left me with. Financial institutions are so competitive these days. Someone who can barely pass a test like me can't hold forth on finance with you, Mr. Jiang. But I can still make a living as a humble translator."

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When they were young, he was the school's heartthrob, admired by everyone from afar. Lu Wenyu had never imagined she could have anything to do with someone so outstanding.

After an accident sparked the first stirrings of a crush in her heart, this aloof, untouchable flower took up her entire youth.

To get a little closer to him, she worked hard to get into the same university and studied the same subject as he did. Everything she did was just to get a little closer. After two years of pining for him in high school, she finally confessed her feelings. Even though he rejected her, she still didn't give up, continuing to pursue him alone for two whole years.

In her sophomore year, she took a long leave of absence. When she returned to campus, it was to withdraw from school. That night, she met the person she had wanted to see. But the words she spoke were no longer the confession she had been in love with for so long. They were a carefully considered farewell.

From then on, she left his life. That parting lasted nine years...

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Later, one night, the man came to her drunk, his eyes red and tears in their corners. His voice trembling with hurt, he begged her: "Ayu, whatever you want, I'll give it to you. My money, my car, my house. Please... don't leave me, okay?"

Tears slid down the man's handsome face. His voice was hoarse and shaking. "Ayu, I know you don't need anything now. Could you just take me too? Take me home, okay?"

"I've loved you for such a long time. I went looking for you, searched and searched, but... you were gone again. Gone. I'm sorry. I lost you..."

That night, he cried like a child who had been abandoned, full of hurt...

Later, Jiang Yixing held the beloved he'd longed for in his arms. His voice was gentle and intimate by her ear: "You don't have to force yourself to be gentle. Gentleness is a trap, and so are you. I'll willingly surrender to your gentleness. You are gentleness, you are romance, you are the rest of my life. You are everything. I will always yield to gentleness."

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Gentle, generous heroine x handsome, devoted hero

She pursues him first and fails, then he chases after her

Theme: Love can stand on tiptoe, and it can also bend down.