A Heart's Love Has No Expiration Date

[My next novel is called After Escaping the 996 Grind, I Returned to My Hometown and Opened a Psychology Clinic. The preview is below. A warm, healing, sweet little story. Please add it to your collection!]

[Synopsis]

* An unconventional second-chance romance, split roughly 30/70 between school days and city life.

Shi Suisui had a long, vivid dream. In it, she was taken back to that summer when she thought she would reach eternity.

Clear, bright sunlight fell across the boy's face without restraint. Hope shone in his eyes as he asked her, "Are you getting on Q/Q tonight?"

Shi Suisui felt the summer of her youth arriving. Her heart felt like she was treading waves by the sea: happy, and damp with sea spray.

But they were young then, and had yet to encounter love amid a torrential downpour. They also didn't know that some mountains and seas must be crossed alone.

In the end, she lost touch with the boy who had sent her a worry-free circle.

Twelve years later, they meet again unexpectedly.

At the dinner table, his subordinate showers her with attention and boldly confesses his feelings.

He acts as if he hasn't heard a thing, without the slightest reaction.

She mocks herself inwardly: Shi Suisui, what are you getting your hopes up for? He's moved on long ago.

Little does she know that a week later, in some unseen corner, a man grabs his coworker and wails, "What's going on with President Qi? Why is he picking on me alone? I've been working overtime for a whole week! If this keeps up, I'll be bald! Waaaah..."

Later, she pretends to be drunk and leans against his back, resting a hand gingerly on his shoulder.

Using the "alcohol" as an excuse, she asks the question that has weighed on her heart for so long: "Yu Chunyi said... you get quite a lot of people pursuing you?"

He freezes at her words and turns to search her eyes.

"That's other people. What about you?"

[The greatest kindness the world has given me is love that came late, and you, returned to me after I lost you.]

[Two steadfast hearts leaning together, weathering the storms outside.]

*A love where they choose each other, bringing warmth and healing to one another.

P.S. Set in a fictional world; some place names are made up.

[Preview]

* A sharp-tongued, soft-hearted, polished ice queen vs. a warmhearted, kind man who's great at housework

In the year she turned twenty-nine, Jiang Jiayin ended her life in Beijing and returned to Changcheng, her hometown, a third-tier city.

On moving day, she met the nightmare of her childhood at her front door: Ji Yu, "the kid everyone else's parents wanted."

He was also the top name on her "people I hate" list.

"Where should I put this box?" the man asked, holding one of her boxes at her door.

"Huh? Oh... Just put it by the shoe cabinet, thanks." Jiang Jiayin met his eyes in a panic, then immediately looked away. Keeping her manner distant and polite, she pretended not to recognize him.

At that, the man narrowed his eyes and studied her, then asked at his leisure, "What, don't recognize me anymore, Jiang Jiayin?"

She swallowed and forced out a smile. "...How could I not? I was just worried you wouldn't remember me, haha."

The man raised an eyebrow, clearly unconvinced.

Jiang Jiayin looked at the exemplary student her mother had constantly praised to teach her a lesson, now wearing a fluorescent vest and working as a mover, and couldn't help sighing.

She felt as if, after great difficulty, she had finally crossed the mountain she had looked up to for so many years.

That night, she couldn't wait to call her friend. "Do you know who I ran into today?"

Even through the screen, Haitang could smell the strong whiff of gossip on the other end. "Who?"

Jiang Jiayin: "Ji Yu! He works for a moving company now. He moved all my stuff for me."

Haitang: "Huh? I haven't heard anything about him in ages. I thought he'd work somewhere like a brokerage firm."

Jiang Jiayin: "Yeah, who would've thought..."

A week later, she received a WeChat message from her friend.

[Haitang: What mover? Ji Yu is the owner of a small business now, okay!]

Jiang Jiayin put down her phone and looked at the cold, handsome profile in front of her, feeling a jumble of emotions...

P.S. Set in a fictional world; some place names are made up.

Theme: Have the courage to pursue love.