On the day they broke up, Wen Jiao threw the whole bouquet from the second-floor balcony. Petals rained down, leaving the young man a complete mess.
After that, she went abroad to study. From then on, they had nothing to do with each other.
Five years later, Wen Jiao returned to her hometown.
Their circumstances had been turned upside down.
Qi Yan, the poor boy everyone had looked down on back then, had become a rising power in Nancheng.
Meanwhile, she, once from a privileged family, was scrambling to help her father, who had been sent to prison.
Friends and relatives alike wanted nothing to do with her.
When Wen Jiao was at her lowest, with nowhere left to turn, the man renowned for his rationality and coldness told her:
“You have one more option. Marry me.”
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Wen Jiao had always thought Qi Yan's marriage proposal was a trap, a way to get revenge on her.
Only much later, when a group of old friends got together and played Truth or Dare, did she find out the truth.
Qi Yan's friend teased him: “I wonder who it is that keeps showing off his wife in the group chat every day. Nobody cares whether your tie today was picked out and tied for you by your dear wife, all right?”
Then he turned to the innocent, confused Wen Jiao. “Isn't that right, Mrs. Qi Yan?”
Wen Jiao: “?”
[Cold on the Outside, Shameless on the Inside, Tech Mogul x Mildly Socially Anxious Pharmaceutical Researcher]
#A fleeting moment of love in a mortal life may last less than a hundred years, but you exist beyond the order of things#
A short story, about 120,000 to 130,000 Chinese characters
Blurb dated January 26, 2025
Theme: May the rest of your life be happy.
