Secrets

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1.

Xu Qiemi had a secret she could never tell anyone, and it was about Qi Ye.

When they were young, everyone adored him. He was carefree and wild, while she was timid and insecure, always following the rules.

They belonged to two worlds that could never have come together.

She quietly watched the girls around him come and go, until March 5, 2015

It was Xu Qiemi's birthday, and she clearly remembered the party two weeks earlier.

Drunk, she had done something daring for the first time in her life. With no one watching, she stood on tiptoe in the dark and kissed him.

Afterward, when someone came looking for him, Xu Qiemi didn't dare take it seriously. "I don't really remember..."

The next second, Qi Ye had her pinned firmly against the wall. He lowered his head, a roguish, wicked smile on his lips. "Then how about I help you remember?"

2.

Everyone thought Xu Qiemi was too sweet and soft, destined to be pushed around.

But they didn't know that on the first day after Qi Ye turned twenty-two, he spent the whole night awake and went to the marriage registry before dawn to wait for Xu Qiemi. He waited from morning until night.

All he got was her saying they should break up.

3.

Years later, when they met again, Xu Qiemi was assigned to negotiate a partnership with Miye Medical. No one could have guessed that its aloof, high-powered CEO would come in person to discuss the deal.

At dinner, the hospital director tried to get closer to Qi Ye and said with a smile, "President Qi, did you and our Qiemi know each other before?"

Qi Ye glanced at her, cool and distant, as if she were a stranger. "I don't know her very well."

Xu Qiemi's eyes stung. It seemed he really didn't love her anymore.

She collected herself, and they continued the discussion in his office.

Xu Qiemi stumbled against the desk, her breathing unsteady. He leaned over and caged her in, their noses nearly touching, their breaths intimate and humid. "If you really consider it, what do I get out of it?"

"...What do you want?"

Qi Ye froze for a moment, his voice turning hoarse. "Anything?"

"As long as I have it."

So, after a night of rain, Xu Qiemi married him without hesitation.

One day after they were married,

Xu Qiemi found his datebook. On the first page, he had written:

When on earth can you look at me

March 5, 11:13 p.m.

I finally have her

This feeling

Is like...

Having lived a life worth living

Qi Ye, 2015

Content warnings:

1. Second-chance romance / mutual pining / reunion after years apart / healing

2. They are each other's only one, body and heart. The male lead's wild reputation is only how others see him.

3. Starts in school and moves to the city. Some details differ from reality, and any professional details are based on online research.

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Please add A Toast Too Far to your favorites if you like it!

Wen Zhuo was well-behaved and obedient for twenty-three years, yet married a man she'd met only once.

If she had known he was He Jingxi, her mysterious boss, she, intern Wen Zhuo, would never have let herself lose her head.

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The Wen family protected their eldest daughter. When Wen Zhuo was seventeen, they brought her from Nanjiang to Jingbei and arranged for her to be a bargaining chip in a marriage alliance with a reckless playboy.

Just before graduation, Wen Zhuo returned to Nanjiang on a business trip. She never expected to run into He Jingxi there.

At the time, the man her family had chosen for her was pestering her.

Then she caught sight of a man lighting a cigarette, his head turned slightly in the murky, dim light. His noble bearing made him unforgettable at a glance.

Perhaps it was the plum rains, with spring tides swelling, but the gaze he turned on her seemed just as intense.

Wen Zhuo thought she might be going crazy. She ran straight toward him, her delicate hand grabbing the man's neatly arranged collar. In a panic, she stammered, "I'm not going through with the marriage alliance. I'm already married. He's my husband."

She never expected her words to come true.

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Everyone in Jingbei's upper circles knew He Jingxi, the head of the He family. He was a master strategist in business, devoted to his career and never involved with women.

He had spent years building the company's business overseas, but after returning home, he suddenly began wearing a wedding ring on his left ring finger.

Once Wen Zhuo learned how powerful her husband was, she became even more convinced that their marriage was only a formality, and didn't dare hope for anything.

Until one day after they were married.

She unexpectedly learned how he got the scar on his shoulder: when she was seventeen, He Jingxi had risked his life and rushed into a burning building to save her. But...

Wen Zhuo held back a headache and lifted her reddened eyes from his arms, her voice thick with a stuffy nose. "I can't remember you. What should I do?"

He Jingxi lowered his head and kissed her damp lashes, gentle and devout. "Then fall in love with me again."

Theme: Overcome hardship and grow as a person.