Sleepless Through the Long Night

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Distinguished tycoon x clearheaded college student

Older man x eight-year age gap | powerful man bows his head | groveling redemption

Zhu Jimyue had seen Li Yanzhao once, a long time ago.

Through several black luxury cars, she saw the man surrounded by people from far away. On that scorching day, he alone seemed cold and distant, set apart from everyone around him, noble and untouchable.

Everyone around him was fawning over him, calling him Mr. Li.

She saw Mr. Li again at Beicheng University’s centennial celebration.

He was an honorary alumnus invited back by the school, donating nine figures with a casual gesture. She was one of the hostesses and handed him a cheap ballpoint pen.

When the event ended, Zhu Jimyue thought that would be the end of their connection.

She never expected the aloof Mr. Li to keep appearing before her and helping her out.

One day, Zhu Jimyue couldn't help asking Mr. Li. With a tentative hope and unmistakable nervousness, she said, "You've been so good to me. Do you like me?"

Desire surged in the dark of night, and his expression was unreadable.

The man fell silent, seemingly annoyed that she had asked such an impertinent question.

Her heart grew heavy, and she smiled with understanding.

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While they were together, Li Yanzhao doted on Zhu Jimyue, letting her openly claim him as hers, but he never once said that he loved her.

He watched Zhu Jimyue grow from nineteen to twenty-two.

He taught her how to let go, urged her to bravely reach for what she wanted, and helped her learn to choose what mattered.

At the time, he never imagined he would be the one she let go of.

When he turned thirty, Zhu Jimyue left him.

She walked away, decisively, as if she had never loved him.

After Zhu Jimyue left, a friend asked him nosily, "After all these years, did you ever love Xiaoyue?"

Li Yanzhao didn't answer. He only recalled a rainy day when Zhu Jimyue had asked him, "Sir, you've been so good to me. Do you like me?"

Did he love Zhu Jimyue?

He thought of how he had spent every sleepless night after she left, closing his eyes only to see her filling his thoughts.

If that was the case, then he must have loved her.

He regretted, for no reason he could explain, not answering her that day.

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Zhu Jimyue never imagined that, through all those endless nights after they parted, Li Yanzhao had been thinking of her.

The sincere, pure, one-of-a-kind love she wanted was something Li Yanzhao could give her.

-- Both physically and emotionally pure. The male lead has only ever been with her.

Theme: Everyone is one of a kind.