A Dry Rain Tonight

A village healer from a border town x an undercover cop with amnesia

Love at first sight | Mature romance | Second chance | Age and size difference | Intense push and pull

In a small town on the Thai-Myanmar border, Wen Xiaohe was in her third year with Lu Beixiao when he regained his memory. He remembered that he was an undercover police officer, and that he had a fiancee waiting for him to come home.

When the girl found Wen Xiaohe, she cried pitifully and said she and Lu Beixiao had been childhood sweethearts.

“Please give him back to me.”

“I've waited ten years for him to come back and marry me.”

Wen Xiaohe fell silent for a long time, then said softly, “All right.”

That night, Wen Xiaohe left the village where she'd lived for twenty years and crossed the border alone into a strange country.

Three years later, while Wen Xiaohe was bandaging the wounds of children at a local refugee camp, an armed thug held her hostage at knifepoint in the street.

Lu Beixiao rescued her, and she tried to slip away in the confusion.

The man grabbed her wrist and snapped a handcuff around it.

“Where are you going?”

“Planning to disappear without a word again?”

After nightfall, Wen Xiaohe dreamed.

“Brother Yanqing...”

She called his name again and again, and Lu Beixiao, lying beside her, heard every word.

She was calling out for another man even in her sleep. Furious, Lu Beixiao slapped her awake.

Looking at her little mouth, pinched into a pout, he suddenly asked, “Has he ever kissed you?”

Still half-asleep, she nodded.

“When!” Lu Beixiao was livid.

“F... four years ago.”

“Four years ago, you should still have been in school. He'd already dropped out.”

“Ha. Going after a schoolgirl?”

As soon as he said it, he pounced on her, pinning her beneath him and kissing her fiercely.

Reading guide:

1. The male lead is chaste in body and mind, and the heroine is a virgin.

2. He's six years older. He's 28, and she's 22.

3. He's 190 cm tall, and she's 164 cm tall.

4. A mysterious set of measurements: 107, 72, 94, 18.

5. About the male lead and his fiancee: They were only engaged and never actually dated. The reason will be explained later in the story.

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A tough, flirty, sweet girl x a super-handsome investor

At eighteen, fate played two little jokes on Meng Xin:

First, her fishing village was slated for demolition, and her family received a good deal of money, enough for her to go to college.

Second, she met Shen Tingzhou.

The first happened because of the second.

At the time, Shen Tingzhou had just returned from abroad. He bought islands, land, ships, and gold mines, investing billions. His youthful arrogance was on full display.

Shen Tingzhou was genuinely intimidating, and genuinely handsome.

May 2017

This was how Meng Xin began the entry about Shen Tingzhou in her notebook.

·

The sea was crystal-clear, its glittering surface dazzling. The handsome, refined man in the reporters' footage smiled warmly, making Meng Xin think differently about him.

“That girl likes you. Want to take her home?”

“If you like her, go after her. I'm not interested.”

Her crush was young, clumsy, and obvious. Running away in defeat was inevitable.

·

From eighteen to twenty-one, she grew out of her childish looks and applied for a job as an executive assistant. She never imagined she'd see Shen Tingzhou again.

“Look, isn't that the girl who likes you? She even followed you all the way here. Still not interested?”

“Nope.”

Everyone teased her, but Meng Xin just smiled.

As soon as Shen Tingzhou left, the phone on her desk rang.

“Video call tonight. Wear the pink one.”

“When are you going to show your face? I want to see you.”

The executive assistant he claimed not to be interested in during the day became, by night, the online girlfriend who haunted his thoughts from behind a screen.

·

Meng Xin didn't know how she was found out. One day, she opened the door, and Shen Tingzhou was standing outside.

His eyes were red, and he was fierce as he cornered her, step by step, until they reached the bedroom.

“Jiang Nianbai says he's not a virgin anymore. Is that your doing?”

“What does it have to do with me whether he's a virgin or not?”

“It wasn't you?”

“It wasn't me.”

·

Jiang Nianbai was always telling Shen Tingzhou, “Everyone has to suffer for love at some point. It's not that love isn't there, it's just not your time yet.”

Shen Tingzhou knew perfectly well that the so-called suffering had started five years ago. He was the one who had fallen in love first.

Theme: Love life