Light Rain and Sleet

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After three years of studying for the civil service exam, Tang Xue had lost her edge. Looking at the rented room piled high with practice tests, she felt like she couldn't breathe. So she signed up on a ride-hailing app and started working as a designated driver at night.

One day, she got a job driving a car she'd never driven before: a Maybach.

At the destination, she waited and waited, until a man who was nearly drunk finally showed up. Looking more closely, she realized he was her ex-boyfriend, Tong Jiaxi, whom she hadn't seen in years.

By then, he'd successfully started his own business and was riding high. Tang Xue lowered her head, hoping to pretend she didn't know him.

But the moment he handed her the car keys, he called her by name in a calm, precise voice. "Tang Xue?"

"What a coincidence."

An even bigger coincidence: she scratched his car on her very first drive.

The man raised his eyes and glanced at the scratch. "Miss Tang, how do you plan to make this right?"

A few days later, their next meeting was at the marriage registry.

One night after they were married, snow began falling around midnight.

Tong Jiaxi didn't get home until very late. Tang Xue checked the time. It was three in the morning.

"Why are you home so late?"

He was carrying a bag. When he opened it, steam still rose from inside. It was the crab roe buns she'd mentioned the day before.

"It was snowing, and the roads were bad. It took a while."

Snow still clung to his hair. One touch, and it melted.

Her heart melted along with it.

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