All Too Familiar

After graduating from a prestigious university, Chu Zhi traveled around Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, seeing the lights still shining in the floor-to-ceiling windows of major tech companies at four or five in the morning. Now, with her parents in worrying health, she had returned to her hometown in a second-tier city to take care of them.

On her very first day home, her relatives started playing matchmaker, introducing her to men. "Zhizhi is great in every way, except that she's almost thirty and still unmarried."

Chu Zhi was a devoted daughter, so she agreed to go on a blind date. But she was a graduate of a top university. Even if she was getting older, did they really have to set her up with the young owner of an internet cafe?

When she finally saw the man at the restaurant, though, she realized he looked very familiar.

The matchmaker went on and on praising him, but all Chu Zhi could hear was the wind from the summer when she was eighteen, rushing past her ears.

That year, Cheng Dao had often tricked her into skipping evening study hall and going with him to the little alley behind the internet cafe!

From the way Chu Zhi touched her earring, Cheng Dao knew she was pretty pleased with this blind date, or at least with the fact that his looks had held up.

After the date, downstairs at his apartment building, he politely invited her. "Want to come upstairs and sit for a while?"

Chu Zhi lowered her head shyly. "Which kind of sit?"

Cheng Dao laughed, grabbed her by the nape like a kitten, and led her upstairs. "Either kind."

A mature man and woman, old acquaintances, with old feelings still familiar at heart.

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Blurb:

On a tipsy night, the elevator doors opened.

Inside stood Zhou Xi, smiling brightly, with her first love, the man she'd always cherished.

Outside was her neighbor, with whom she'd spent a night of passion the evening before, holding a pink trash bag from her apartment.

Their eyes met. Oh, this was bad.

Theme: The old is best