Everlasting Love

Second Chance Romance | Deeply in Love with Each Other | Sweet at First, Then Full of Push and Pull

[Complete. Updated to revise and fix errors @ Zhou Jing M]

Years after their breakup, Ye Zhen ran into Qin Jinan again at a class reunion.

In a world of wealth and influence where everyone wore a smile, he was a man of status, cool and unconcerned, just as he had been back then.

Back then, everyone at A University knew about her and Qin Jinan.

He had been the golden boy, admired by all, proud and aloof, unimpressed by everything. She was the one exception: he had fallen for her.

Ye Zhen avoided him, but somehow, he cornered her in a rainstorm.

In the cramped space, he lightly twirled a strand of her hair and leaned close. "What are you hiding from? I won't kiss you now."

He was brazen by nature, and just as brazen in loving her. He loved her down to his bones. Even when they broke up, all he asked was whether she'd ever loved him.

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Years later, they met again. On a rainy night, halfway through the reunion, Ye Zhen went out to buy hangover medicine for a friend and got a call from Qin Jinan.

It was December. The streets were quiet and cold. On the other end of the line, the man spun the striker wheel of his lighter. "Are you free?"

"Not really."

"Then what should I do?" he said. "I want to see you."

She couldn't help saying, "Qin Jinan."

"You still owe me a favor." His voice was low and unhurried. "Come over, and we'll be even."

How could they ever be even?

Ye Zhen didn't understand.

She and Qin Jinan knew each other inside and out, and their deep feelings were impossible to erase. If they met again, they would either end up tangled in each other's arms or tangled in their feelings.

Either way, it was more than she could bear.

Even knowing all the sorrow that awaited me, I would still choose to go.

Arrival

-Cool beauty x rich playboy

-University campus and modern city | Both are each other's first love | Happy ending

-Sweet on campus, bittersweet angst and push-pull in the city

Blurb dated 2023.09.16

Please add my next book in the series, Snowbound in the Maze, to your collection!

Second Chance Romance | Opens in the modern city

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At sixteen, Shen Qingyang was taken in by her mother, who had divorced and remarried long ago, after her father's job sent him overseas. She moved into the Xu family home.

On the way there, her mother told her about the Xu family's second son, Xu Xingzhi. He was refined, accomplished, gentle, and polite, the kind of man everyone considered a rare find.

They first met in the Xu family study. The young man stood before a sandalwood bookshelf, dressed in a white shirt and black trousers, refined and aloof.

He treated her as if she were invisible. His hand rested on the spine of a thick book in its original language, long and elegant, with every bone and joint sharply defined.

Later, those same hands would stroke her cheek and trace her lips and teeth. In an empty conference room, he lowered his eyes, his cool, even voice close to her ear as he threatened, "Who were you smiling at just now?"

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Xu Xingzhi was insane.

Shen Qingyang had cursed him countless times in her thoughts.

Over four years at university, in places no one knew about, she learned firsthand just how depraved he was beneath that perfect-student facade.

Later, they parted on bad terms. After years of drifting through life, they met again five years later.

Xu Xingzhi had returned from abroad as a rising star in tech, unrivaled in the limelight and praised by everyone, just as he had been in his youth.

At a family dinner, Shen Qingyang obeyed her elders and went upstairs to call him down.

The man stood before the mirror in the dressing room, cool and aloof, taking a white shirt from the wardrobe.

She didn't go in. Leaning against the doorway, she calmly told him to come downstairs.

"Dinner?" Xu Xingzhi fastened the last button of his shirt and looked at her in the mirror. "Should we tell them we're getting our marriage license tomorrow?"

Swan princess x man with no morals

Gentle on the outside, strong within x refined scoundrel

"Love doesn't matter. Wanting you is what matters most."

"In this absurd life, you're the one thing I can't let go of."

△ The leads are not blood relatives | They are never registered under the same household | She lives with his family

Theme: I'll live as I please, free and wild, like lush wheat in the fields