Clearly, It Was Just a Game [Rekindled Romance]

Long-planned reunion | Mutual salvation | Rekindled romance | Workplace x high school

Brilliant, ambitious schemer x restrained, devoted, beautiful but tragic man

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At Dongli Games, Zhou Pian has no choice but to face her ex, Geng Xinghe, every day.

In the elevator's promotional video, he lifts a trophy, his stern face radiating success.

But after dodging him again and again, she fails to avoid one drunken night.

When she wakes up in the morning and sees the familiar sleeping face beside her, Zhou Pian feels as if the sky has fallen.

She tries to run, but he pins her against the wall and signs a transfer order.

With nowhere left to go, her ex becomes her boss.

In public, they conduct business professionally, polite and distant, a pair of colleagues who work together seamlessly.

In private, in the dark meeting room, the tip of his leather shoe pins down her stiletto as she tries to back away.

"It's just a game between adults," she warns him. "We each get what we want."

He's always been cold and calculating, pursuing gain and avoiding loss.

Thankfully, she's learned to do the same.

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Geng Xinghe will always remember that summer when Zhou Pian fluttered through his life like a blue morpho butterfly.

She was innocent and sincere, letting him teach her everything: how to say no, how to fight back, how to dream big.

Now she's grown up, surpassed her teacher, and learned his full measure of suspicion and carefully sown doubt.

With red-rimmed eyes, she asks him, "Geng Xinghe, I don't understand. What do you actually want?"

His goal is actually very simple. There's no reason to hide it.

He just wants to stay with her a little longer.

A little longer still.

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Later, the usually stern and ruthless CTO of Dongli, who treats rules as absolute, appears at the company entrance holding a bouquet of icy roses.

Everyone thinks he's just helping carry props. How could the famously unyielding Geng bend to romance?

But he walks straight over to Zhou Pian, the producer who just scored the year's biggest hit.

"A Pian." In full view of everyone, the arrogant man lowers his head, humble and deferential. "Would you do me the honor of giving me a title?"

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*Romance game producer x tech company CTO

*One-on-one romance / happy ending / both leads have no previous sexual experience

Theme: Love and dreams make each other possible