The year she left Fenghai, Chang Si thought she would never come back.
The breakfast shop reeked of choking cooking fumes. The utility poles leaned crookedly, the sewers gave off a stench year-round, and there was the ex-boyfriend she had ruthlessly abandoned.
"Is the big city really that great?" The boy sat astride his motorcycle, silently smoking. "You're giving up everything here?"
"Even me?"
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The big city wasn't as wonderful as she'd imagined. After three years of relentless pandemic-related hardship and the unpredictable twists and turns of office politics, she eventually returned to Fenghai in a sorry state after losing her job.
She thought she'd have nothing left, but it turned out someone had been waiting for her all along.
Reader's Guide:
* A touch of family-centered mystery, and a second-chance romance
* The male lead is a police officer, and both leads are each other's first love
Theme: To be written
