[Complete. My next novel will be Before the Abyss, featuring a refined older man x a dangerously obsessive young woman. Please add it to your favorites.]
○ Financial journalist x Hong Kong tycoon
○ Reunited after years apart | Age gap | Her unrequited love comes true | The powerful man lowers his head | He pursues her after losing her
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Chi Wanli fell for Ji Gengli when she was twenty-one and first discovering love.
He was the youngest literature professor at the University of Hong Kong, refined, easygoing, and gentle.
He wore soft white clothes and gold-rimmed glasses, and a smile usually played at the corners of his mouth.
She, meanwhile, came from a small town, was shy and withdrawn, and had to pay her own tuition and living expenses.
Someone told her:
Professor Ji came from an elite family. He and his fiancée were perfectly matched, and their wedding was just around the corner.
Chi Wanli smiled bleakly. The letter confessing her young heart had already been delivered to his desk.
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Six years later, she meets Ji Gengli again.
She is a rising star in her field, while he is a powerful Hong Kong businessman newly expanding into mainland China.
That night, the villa is quiet, and the scent of osmanthus drifts faintly from the windowsill.
The light behind them outlines their tightly entwined silhouettes. Chi Wanli leans against Ji Gengli's chest, breathing softly, her lips flushed.
His voice is low and slightly seductive as he asks, "Not going home tonight?"
After that, there's no turning back.
They kiss aboard a yacht in international waters, dance at a private estate in the south of France, and watch fireworks in bustling Zhongwei...
But every dream must eventually end.
Not every Cinderella gets her happy ending.
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Later, Ji Gengli attends a global summit as a representative.
In a livestream interview after the event, he is asked about his love life.
The smile of the man in his thirties, a cunning old fox, grows a little more sincere. "I'm pursuing someone. When we make it official is entirely up to her."
The world is in an uproar. So the tycoon has no say in his own love life.
After the conference, he turns down every invitation and hurries back to Nancheng.
Chi Wanli is watching the interview. She looks up at him and says, "In the past, I was always the one who couldn't accept it and wanted to try again."
He presses her against the sofa and kisses her uncontrollably. When he pulls away, his eyes are red.
He says, "A-Li, this time, I'm falling into this with my eyes wide open."
Reader's notes:
△ At first, she has a crush on him; later, he pursues her. The fiancée is in the past.
△ Both leads are each other's first and only. No real-life inspirations, please don't read into it. Many details are fictionalized. Professional information is based on research.
--- Upcoming novel: The Way Home ---
Reunited after a breakup | Bittersweet push and pull | From college to city life
"After meeting her, all my pride and insecurities were shattered one by one. Only my love for her remained stronger than anything else."
Tan Xuzhou
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Ling Yi is rich and beautiful, and has always acted like a bold, spoiled young lady.
At school, people say she changes boyfriends as fast as a milk tea shop launches a new flavor:
They're both limited to the season.
Everyone was stunned when she got together with Tan Xuzhou, because they were complete opposites.
Ling Yi is a player in love, carefree and fickle, passing through a whole field of grass without ever settling down.
Tan Xuzhou, meanwhile, is an outstanding student with excellent grades. As a poor student, he has always focused only on studying and making money, and has never been linked to a girl, even as a rumor.
But they really did get together, and stayed together for two years.
Ling Yi seemed to have genuinely settled down, devoting herself to Tan Xuzhou alone.
But later, they still went their separate ways.
No one knows why. People guess the spoiled young lady got bored.
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Later, they meet again at a class reunion.
Ling Yi is no longer as sharp-edged or proud as before, and treats Tan Xuzhou like any other classmate.
The evening passes peacefully. As the reunion is about to end, Ling Yi suddenly looks at him and asks:
"Didn't you say you were going back to your hometown to help build it up?"
Everyone at the table, itching to gossip, perks up their ears. "Mr. Tan is a famous tech mogul in Beicheng now."
Tan Xuzhou nods without a word.
Ling Yi curls her lips into a smile, remembering what he said when they broke up. She thinks that men are all dogs, and Tan Xuzhou is the worst of them.
It was a rainy night in their junior year. Ling Yi was in a good mood and ready to tell Tan Xuzhou that she wasn't going to the United States after all, and could apply to graduate school at the same university as him.
The proud young lady was adding another person to her life plans with serious intent for the first time.
But Tan Xuzhou rejected her for the third time.
"Let's break up."
"I'm not going to graduate school, and I'm not staying in Beicheng."
His words were resolute. She didn't say a word. The rain was bitterly cold, as if mocking her sincere devotion:
She had no place in his future. Everything she'd done was a joke.
Coming back to herself, Ling Yi drains her drink without expression.
After the reunion, Tan Xuzhou corners her by the elevator exit, his voice hoarse.
"What do you mean? Have you really moved on from me?"
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Before they got together, Ling Yi had confessed to Tan Xuzhou twice, each time as if joking.
At the club's welcome party, Ling Yi gets drunk. She looks at Tan Xuzhou with unusual seriousness.
"Are you really not going to consider being my boyfriend?"
Tan Xuzhou steadies her as she leans toward him. "Third time's the charm."
"What?"
"I said I won't turn you down a third time." His words are tinged with the sweetness of a young woman's lips.
Ling Yi, if you're serious about me, I'll return the same love to you.
- Photographer x tech mogul
- Each other's first love | Both leads' first and only | Happy ending
- The heroine's reputation is all a facade; in truth, she's an innocent college girl
- The heroine isn't a pushover. There's more to their breakup, and the hero suffers just as much
Theme: Loving yourself is the beginning of every story
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Full subscription is the best explanation for this book. It has been a long time since I read a book without stopping, and I couldn't bear to end it until the end. Although this book is about sweet stories, from the early stage of dating to the middle period when Ali and Ali broke up, my heart was in twitching. I felt sorry for Ali and understood Ali. Until they were together again, my heart also fell to the ground. Ali and Ali should always be happy!
Ji's mysophobia is very serious
Come on, the first article is great, keep on making progress~
"Zhou Chengjiu was recruited by her." This is a big bug for the author~ So she recruited her
""Then give me your condolences. ""Catch a big bug for the author~ Maybe it's comfort
The heroine at the beginning is 26 or 7, right? If I remember correctly, the heroine has been working for three years, so she works 23/24. Isn't 23/24 the age to graduate from college?
Well, there are basically no group meetings for graduate students in the United States... Because graduate students don't need mentors very much. They basically have a professional master's degree, and there is no master's degree. The latter all go directly to the PhD route.
"Perfect" is a big bug for the author~
"A trace of relationship." This is a big bug for the author~ There must be concern here
"Huanxiu Cinema" gave the author a big bug~ universal studios