When the Clouds Part, the Moon Appears

[Completely rewritten from start to finish. It's nothing like the original version. If you haven't read it, you can jump straight into the new version. If you have, I recommend rereading it!]

1.

At the opening ceremony for new students, Chen Jianyue fell in love with Fu Yungui at first sight. Her roommate said, "If you can win him over, I'll livestream myself washing my hair upside down on the sports field!"

Chen Jianyue raised an eyebrow. "Deal!"

Whether her roommate washed her hair or not wasn't important. What mattered was that Fu Yungui was exactly her type: handsome and refined, elegant as a jade tree, a textbook example of a heart-stoppingly handsome Chinese man.

That very morning, Chen Jianyue squeezed through a crowd of girls and held her phone out to him.

"Hey, could I add you on WeChat?"

Of all the phones thrust his way, each with its own flashy case, Fu Yungui took only Chen Jianyue's.

They got together a few days later, leaving her roommate dumbfounded.

Less than a month later, they broke up just as quickly.

Her roommate: ??? So, am I still washing my hair?

2.

After the breakup, Chen Jianyue shut her heart to love. She went on to earn her master's and doctorate, then proudly stayed on at her university after graduating, becoming a university counselor, otherwise known as an overworked beast of burden.

They met again at a university event for expanding corporate partnerships. Fu Yungui, CEO of Yunxiang Pharmaceuticals, was there to receive her boss.

On her first business trip with her boss, Chen Jianyue gave her all to the life of an office drudge: bowing and scraping, shaking hands with everyone in turn, until a slender, pale hand with prominent knuckles reached out and then wouldn't let go...

Just as she thought, No way, am I really about to run into workplace sexual harassment this soon???

She looked up...

Well, well!

Fu Yungui, her ex-boyfriend, or rather, the ex-boyfriend she'd dumped ten years ago,

is watching you!

3.

Fu Yungui had been secretly in love with Chen Jianyue for six years. When he was twelve, Chen Jianyue came to spend the summer at her grandmother's home in Xianghai, and that was the first time he saw her.

The fair-skinned girl ran barefoot along the beach every day, climbed over the wall into his yard, knocked on his window, and told him all sorts of exciting news.

At the time, Fu Yungui had just undergone heart surgery and could only lie in his room and recuperate each day, watching the sea breeze ripple and the trees rustle in solitude.

Chen Jianyue was like a ray of light, shining into his heart, which had known no brightness for so long.

The following summer, Fu Yungui made a special trip back from abroad, only to learn that Chen Jianyue's grandmother had passed away.

With his heart in his throat, he opened Chen Jianyue's QQ and asked, "Are you coming this year?"

Chen Jianyue's avatar lit up. She replied with a question mark: "Who are you?"

4.

Even now, Fu Yungui still remembered the flutter in his chest, the feeling from that summer, when Chen Jianyue squeezed through the crowd at their opening ceremony ten years ago and held her phone out to him.

No one knew that at that moment, he had been waiting for six years.

Of course, he also remembered what she said when they broke up: "No particular reason. I'm just getting a little tired of you."

"Chen Jianyue, is there really nothing you want to say to me?"

Next book: I Use Magic in the Cultivation World

Theme: Sincerity deserves sincerity