Born into a family of scholars, Bai Shujun had been the perfect child everyone else's parents wished they had. He was always gentle, refined, and by the book. The only outrageous thing he ever did was fall in love with Gu Chengzhou, a poor boy.
They brought each other breakfast, secretly held hands during lunch break, and hid in empty classrooms after school to kiss...
He stayed by Gu Chengzhou's side, watching him go from a penniless boy to the head of a major corporation.
He watched him change from an earnest, innocent boy who was almost adorably naive into a rising executive so busy with work and business dinners that he barely had a moment to himself.
Bai Shujun never imagined that their love, which had overcome so many obstacles and burned so fiercely, would fall apart at the seven-year itch.
It seemed his lover no longer cared about him.
Afraid their relationship would affect the company's image, Gu Chengzhou told people they were just friends. He spent half of every month on business trips and the other half working overtime at the office. When a business partner introduced him to his granddaughter, he secretly went to meet her without telling Bai Shujun...
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When Bai Shujun found out, the world spun around him. Dazed and confused, he hit his head, and somehow his memories went back to when he was seventeen, before he had even met Gu Chengzhou.
Looking at the suited man before him, red-eyed as he desperately tried to explain their relationship, Bai Shujun simply smiled gently. “Don't lie to me. I've lost my memory, not my intelligence. You're not my type at all.”
At those words, the polished, professional-looking man pouted and burst into tears.
“...”
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The employees at Gu Chengzhou's company realized their boss had finally gone crazy from working overtime.
He'd stopped wearing suits. Now he showed up every day in a T-shirt, a pair of faded jeans, and shoes that were coming apart at the seams. His once immaculate hair was now fluffy and tousled, sometimes with a stubborn cowlick sticking up.
He'd stopped driving his luxury car and started pedaling an old-fashioned bike to work.
The old Gu Chengzhou had hated the powerless person he'd once been.
But now, Gu Chengzhou only wanted to be that poor boy again, so his Shujun would love him.
[Reader's Guide]
· One-on-one, happy ending, both leads are sexually inexperienced, no changing the top
· The top hasn't done anything fundamentally wrong. He got so caught up in making money that he lost sight of what mattered (the reason will be explained later).
· Not a typical groveling-to-win-back-the-wife story. It may be bittersweet, and a little funny too. After they talk things out and make up, it gets sweeter.
Theme: After the storm comes the rainbow