The law firm takes on a merger and acquisition case, and Lan Jia flies to Hong Kong with the project team.
The client is over seventy and stubborn. He won't speak Mandarin or English in meetings, communicating only in Cantonese. Lan Jia struggles to follow.
Back at the hotel that evening, a colleague recommends a live-chat app, and Lan Jia downloads it to cram some Cantonese.
She registers an account and uploads a profile picture.
Messages from strangers keep popping up in her inbox.
The more she reads, the stranger they seem:
[Miss, your face is so gorgeous]
[Are you from the mainland?]
[Hi, beautiful. Is that really you in the photo?]
[You've got a smoking-hot figure. Want to hook up?]
Trusting her colleague, Lan Jia would rather think she'd opened the wrong app than suspect it was for hookups. She keeps using it.
She taps the “Match” button, and the System pairs her with her rich, handsome ex-boyfriend.
Liang Chongyu.
The English name on his business card is the familiar Ethan Leung.
He quickly sends a punctuation mark to say hello.
[Ethan Leung: ?]
Lan Jia jumps and hurriedly logs off.
The next morning, she goes to a meeting at the client's office.
A colleague hands Lan Jia a coffee. “Didn't sleep well last night?”
Lan Jia nods vaguely. “Maybe I wasn't used to the bed.”
Her colleague reminds her, “You'll need to stay sharp in the meeting. Chairman Liang's heir is joining us today, too.”
As the words leave her colleague's mouth, the glass conference-room door swings open.
Lan Jia looks up and suddenly locks eyes with Liang Chongyu.
She nearly spills her coffee.
Hong Kong really is tiny.
She's run into her ex again.
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*Scheduled to begin in the second half of 2026.
Blurb written on July 24, 2026.
Theme: True love can withstand any test
