You, Hidden in Time

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Su Tang was accompanying a coworker to meet an online friend, but she never expected that the friend's plus-one would be the boy she'd secretly loved in high school.

After all these years, he was still the golden boy, the youngest captain at a certain airline. When he smiled, he was just as languid as he had been in high school, though his voice had grown richer and more magnetic.

After dinner, the four of them went to see a movie. In the dark theater, the man beside her suddenly leaned closer, his warm breath brushing her ear. "Su Tang, if I remember right, we went to the same high school, didn't we?"

In an instant, Su Tang's heart, dormant for years, began to pound.

This was bad. She'd fallen for him again.

No, she should say she'd never forgotten him.

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A secret crush is bitter and painful. Your eyes are full of him, but he doesn't even see you.

He doesn't know you handed snacks to everyone around you first, just so you could give his to him last.

He doesn't know that when he casually mentioned how good the food was at a certain place, you secretly went there to try it over the weekend.

He especially doesn't know that whenever he took the initiative to speak to you, even if he said only one word, it made you happy all day.

[School Days to City Life + Both Inexperienced in Love + Secret Crush Comes True + Reunion After Years]

Drunk on Oxygen

The thing Qin Yang regretted most was making the first move on Shen Liang, the top student in the business school. He was the only son of Nancheng's richest man and A University's most notorious playboy: passionate but fickle. When he liked you, anything you did was fine. When he didn't, even looking at you annoyed him.

Qin Yang would always remember the day they broke up. Shen Liang leaned against the window, a cigarette between his fingers, his face full of disgust. "Don't let me see you again."

She left the country in a miserable state and didn't dare return for three years.

But she never imagined that when they met again, he would use the future of her father's company to force her into marriage.

Confused, she kept asking him why. The tall, lean man approached step by step and trapped her against the car door. His voice was as languid as it had been when they were together, tinged with a hint of mischief. "I'm petty. You played me once, so of course I'm going to get you back twice as hard."

Played her?

Qin Yang smiled bitterly. It had been three years, and he still hadn't gotten over it?

He really was petty.

She married him, carrying the sorrow of being toyed with, only to find that something felt off after the wedding.

When she forgot to eat dinner, he nagged her while cooking for her himself. "How can you even forget dinner? Do you think you're three years old?"

When she hurt her foot in the suburbs, he dropped a contract worth over a hundred million and drove over himself, picking her up with worry written all over his face. "How do you even walk? Looks like I'm going to have to keep you tied to my belt from now on."

After she watched a horror movie and couldn't sleep, he called her on video from overseas and sang lullabies to her all night. When she had period cramps, he could keep a hand on her stomach all night. And she... she...

She was overwhelmed by all his kindness. At last, one day, she couldn't help asking him, "Why?"

The man held her tight, his voice trembling slightly. "What I said back then was just in anger. I've been waiting for you to come and make it up to me, but you never did. So I had to come make it up to you myself. There hasn't been a single day in these three years when I haven't missed you."

Theme: Pursue both career and love