You Can't Just Disappear Without Saying Goodbye

[Unemployed, reemployed, refined teacher bottom X domineering, wolfish younger CEO top]

[Reader's Guide]

Volume One, Haitong: A youthful, forbidden push and pull on campus.

Volume Two, Red Bean: A reunion after years apart in the urban workplace.

In May, they exchanged glances beside a wall of Chinese hawthorn trees, surrounded by pale yellowish-white blossoms and their drifting fragrance.

In June, there was restrained yearning and feelings realized too late. He thought they understood each other without a word.

In July, amid the stifling heat of summer and the damp rainy season, they were close enough to touch, yet kept missing each other.

In August, on an island at sunrise, with a swollen mark on his neck and fingers smeared with medicated oil, Zhaolin finally worked up the courage to confess. But the other person had already decided to leave without saying goodbye.

Then everything came to an abrupt halt, and four years flashed by.

It was September once again. His shirt was spattered with mud, and the soles of his shoes had come loose.

Qi Xiuning thought he could make up for all the time that had stood still, but it was too late. The other man was going to resent him and seek revenge...

Qi Xiuning laid his heart bare, only to hear the other man's scornful mockery and darkly demanding question: "Mr. Qi, do you know what I've been through these past four years?"

Theme: Observe basic social etiquette and don't leave without saying goodbye