Escape on a Summer Night

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[Small-town exchange student VS rich young master]

[Clear-eyed yet falling hard VS sharp-tongued but soft-hearted] A second chance for a broken romance / hate-making-literature

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“Love is a fire that never goes out, but it only means something once you appear.”, The tenth letter Shan Qing wrote to A Yue but never sent.

1.

In high school, Li Yuexi and Ye Shanqing came from completely different worlds.

He was the only son of the Ye family, an arrogant, free-spirited rich young master who had always done whatever he pleased.

She was just an exchange student who had come from a small town to the big city on a scholarship.

She was always on her own. A whole semester passed without her saying much to anyone or offering a single smile.

Everyone said she was a block of ice that no amount of warmth could melt, and anyone who got close would only get frostbite.

Later on,

Young Master Ye found out firsthand that they were right.

On a bitterly cold winter night, with the north wind howling,

Li Yuexi kissed him of her own accord for the first time. She was so tender and lingering, as if silently confessing her love.

When their lips parted, she didn’t look back. She left him with words a hundred times colder than the wind: “Let’s break up. Don’t ever see me again.”

From then on, Ye Shanqing kept her in his heart under the name of hatred.

2.

Years later, on a rainy night, Li Yuexi never imagined she would run into the ex-boyfriend she had dumped like this.

She stepped out of a flower shop with a bunch of iridescent roses she had just bought. The rain soaked her hair and the hem of her dress.

As she stood there in a miserable state, she bumped into a man’s arms. She looked up into a pair of deep eyes, and her heart instantly began to race.

Ye Shanqing tilted his umbrella toward her. “It’s just an umbrella. Afraid to take it?”

Raindrops rolled down his long eyelashes, making him look just like he had when he’d cried and begged her not to leave him all those years ago.

Li Yuexi’s heart tightened. She took the umbrella and thanked him coolly, as if she didn’t know him. “Thank you, sir.”

3.

Ye Shanqing, heir to the Ye family, was gentle and steady in the way he handled things, completely unlike the unruly playboy he’d been as a teenager.

Recently, though, he had been acting completely out of character at work.

The reason was simple: the other party’s publicity director was his ex-girlfriend, Li Yuexi.

He rejected every proposal she put forward and insisted on meeting in the middle of the night to revise the details.

He found fault with every venue she chose and insisted on supervising in person.

He even took issue with her answering a call from a male client.

Everyone thought Director Li and Mr. Ye were utterly incompatible.

But someone saw him at the project celebration dinner, taking advantage of the alcohol to ask her, “Renew the contract? From now on, work with me on everything.”

Director Li smiled politely, her eyes clear as autumn water. “Aren’t you afraid I’ll break our agreement again?”

Nobody knew that after running into her again on that rainy night,

Ye Shanqing had gone home and lit one cigarette after another. White smoke curled around him, concealing his haggard face.

When he had smoked the last one down to the filter, he sent a message in their WeChat conversation, its screen full of red unread-message markers: [A Yue, you broke up with me in winter. It’s summer now, so it doesn’t count.]

#The “cactus girl” who reaches for whatever she wants and always puts her pride first

#The “lucky unlucky guy” who could always get anything he wanted with ease, until he fell for her

Both are each other’s first love | Both are inexperienced | Happy ending

Reader’s guide:

① The leads are the same age. There are no intimate scenes before they reach adulthood.

② After the breakup, both of them went on dates arranged by others, but neither entered a relationship. Please keep this in mind if that bothers you.

③ There are many fictional details, so please don’t overthink them.

④ More to come if I think of anything...

(Blurb written July 3, 2024, revised July 19, 2024. Screenshots have been taken. Don’t steal the concept.)

Theme: Stay true to yourself