A Secret Crush, a Mystery

■ New novel, Twilight Over Victoria Harbour, now serializing... ■

■ Bright, slightly fiery heroine X gentle, restrained, highly educated CEO ■

■ Love at first sight / Reunion after a long separation / Bittersweet push and pull / Bold pursuit of love / Stealing someone's girl ■

Synopsis:

Su An came across a post on a Q&A site by chance: "Tell us about the time you were farthest away from your secret crush."

The three most-liked comments were:

[When he held his baby and told them to call me Auntie~]

[When he sent me a wedding invitation...]

[After the college entrance exam, she went to Peking University while I went to a local university!]

She remembered a night five years ago and added a new comment:

"Because he studied medicine, I stayed up late chewing through more than five thousand pages of the English edition of Oxford's medical textbook. My roommate recommended a new hit drama, and the male lead was him."

Two days later, a man rushed into the emergency room carrying a little girl. "Doctor, the child has appendicitis!"

Su An looked up sharply. Through his black mask, she recognized at a glance the boy who had once been so full of youthful confidence.

Youth lasts only a few years, but she had loved him for ten.

*

After eight years in the industry, award-winning actor Zhou Yi was praised as the most low-key top-tier star: composed, self-disciplined, scandal-free, and seemingly without worldly desires.

Then he met Su An and accidentally learned the little girl's secret of ten years. He watched her pretend to be calm and indifferent.

At a class reunion, Zhou Yi found out by chance that she was going on a blind date.

Slightly drunk and consumed by jealousy, he pinned her in a corner against the wall. "Dr. Su, could you keep loving me?"

After a reckless night together, Su An fled.

Later, Zhou Yi won another Best Actor award. During his acceptance speech, he publicly announced his marriage.

"It's hard to imagine that, somewhere I never knew about, my wife was guarding the dream I had abandoned all by herself. If I could transmigrate through time, I'd want to go back and give her a hug, at the very least."

"Mrs. Zhou, from now on, let me be the one to love you, from twenty-seven to ninety-seven... until the end of my life."

That night, eighty million fans suffered heartbreak all at once, and the entire internet crashed.

* Composed, low-key top-tier star and award-winning actor X exceptionally talented surgeon

Reading Guide:

1. Reunion after a long separation, secret love fulfilled, romance-focused!

2. Both leads are each other's first and only love / HE

3. Heavily revised! Very heavily revised! If you're reading pirated copies, please don't come give me writing advice~

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[ Bright, slightly fiery heroine X gentle, restrained, highly educated CEO ]

The day Sang Jiu reunited with Meng Subai, her younger sister Sang Yue happened to ask whether she'd met any unforgettable handsome men during her cruise to Harbor City four years ago.

With the tavern music making her feel a little giddy, Sang Jiu recalled it with a straight face: "There really was one. A gentleman in a suit when dressed, a perfect specimen with lean muscles when undressed, one hundred ninety centimeters tall, broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and long legs, with eight-pack abs and defined obliques. He'd bring you chocolate when you were sad and scoop you up in his arms when you were scared. He had impeccable values and stunning features, thick brows, big eyes, a high nose, and a mole between his brows. He was sexy, yet had an almost divine air."

Her younger sister chuckled. "Sis, you've watched so many short dramas you've fried your brain!"

Sang Jiu laughed along without saying a word.

The next moment, the wind stirred the curtain, and Meng Subai pushed open the door.

Sang Jiu didn't dare admit the truth: the man before her, with his almost divine air, was the one she'd had her way with on the night before their cruise returned to port. Then she'd used her supposed blackout as an excuse to run off and abandon him!

After all, in her innocent younger sister's eyes, her beloved big sister and brother-in-law had been happily married for years, with a stable, harmonious relationship!

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Sang Jiu had never thought the two of them, separated by fate, would ever meet again. She'd never expected that one day, four years later, a man as dignified as him would be cornered in her bedroom.

"Please, don't make a sound."

On the other side of the wall, the heady scent of roses still lingered.

Forced to sit on the bed, Meng Subai unconsciously grasped something silky and soft. It felt so delicate that it fit in his hand. He lowered his head and looked.

Thin, pure black, trimmed with lace, and small enough to fit in one hand when gathered up...

It was a slip dress that had just been taken off Sang Jiu.

Sure enough, sneaking around always comes back to bite you.

Having finally seen her boyfriend off, Sang Jiu let out a breath and complained weakly.

Behind her, the man who had heard every word of her affectionate conversation with her boyfriend couldn't help but give a self-deprecating smile.

"Boss Sang's boyfriend really is enviable."

■ SC / Five-year age gap / Slightly fictionalized setting / HE

■ Love at first sight / Reunion after a long separation / Bittersweet push and pull / Bold pursuit of love / Stealing someone's girl

■ "Brother-in-law" is only what her younger sister calls him, not her actual brother-in-law. He's also not the heroine's real boyfriend. There is no cheating, only the hero putting in every effort to steal her away

Theme: Never give up on either love or your dreams