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A fake playboy who's secretly fragile × a fake good girl who's secretly rebellious
Childhood friends / mutual pining becomes real / rekindled romance / testing each other
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Man Rao had lived by the rules for more than twenty years. The only two times she ever defied convention were both connected to Huo Shuting.
The first was the summer after high school, when she got involved with Huo Shuting for two months, though neither of them ever made things clear.
The second was the summer Huo Shuting returned many years later, when she became his secret lover.
Neither of those things ended well for her:
Her summer at eighteen ended in despair and self-doubt.
Her summer at twenty-six ended amid an elaborate conspiracy that she believed amounted to betrayal.
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A turning point in Huo Shuting's life came when he was eighteen. He cast off his old life and seized the opportunity with great intelligence.
Later, people in Yecheng praised him for knowing when to take hold and when to let go, and for having a ruthless streak. He thought so too.
But when the summer of his twenty-sixth year ended, there was one person he could never let go of again.
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Huo Shuting's name is connected to summer, and their story began in the heat of summer. Man Rao thought it would be fitting to let this clichéd story end in summer, too.
Only later did she learn that the summer heat was hard to dispel, and that this scorching season would drag on and on.
Theme: Love is the hardest thing to let go of
