Rekindled romance | Two powerful women at work | A forceful, straightforward woman who's gentle but strong × a frail yet proud, resilient, and deeply devoted woman
[Synopsis]
In high school, Xie Yuan'an was the class slacker, notorious for skipping class and hating school, while Xu Xiao was the aloof senior and top student in every subject in her classmates' eyes.
But their teachers and classmates didn't know that the girl at the bottom of the grade rankings and the one at the top often skipped evening study together, then fell asleep in each other's arms inside the locked old science building.
Back then, Xie Yuan'an knew Xu Xiao was in poor health, so she often climbed over the wall to buy her meals and medicine. She also shamelessly bullied her, demanding a kiss from her senior in exchange for solving one more problem.
“You're studying for yourself, not for...”
“For you,” Xie Yuan'an cut in stubbornly. “You said that if I got into Central Normal University too, you'd agree to be with me.”
But on the day she took her acceptance letter and prepared to confess, she found the old science building empty and heard from someone else that Xu Xiao had gone abroad to study.
That secret romance, which never had the chance to begin, became a bittersweet dream of her youth.
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Years later, Xie Yuan'an became a senior consultant at a publicly listed company. She thought life would go on like this forever, until a newly appointed boss suddenly disrupted her peaceful, uneventful routine.
The new supervisor, transferred from headquarters, was cold and strict, treating everyone with the same rigid professionalism. People speculated about her background, but Xie Yuan'an recognized her at first glance: the face that so often appeared in her dreams, and the beauty mark beneath the V-neck of her silk blouse.
She feared Xu Xiao would expose her act in front of everyone and humiliate her, but the other woman was even more indifferent than she'd expected. With a bitter heart, Xie Yuan'an could only accept that she had probably been forgotten long ago.
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Until one day, on her way home after a business banquet, Xie Yuan'an found Xu Xiao hunched over beside a flower bed, looking utterly wretched.
The aloof, elegant director, always so composed, let her hard shell fall for the first time in front of her “subordinate.” Biting her lip against the pain, she slapped away the hand reaching for her. But when Xie Yuan'an really turned to leave, she cautiously caught the hem of her clothes.
“I'm sorry...”
“I was wrong.”
“This time I told you ahead of time. Could you please not let me go?”
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Theme: Your health is the foundation of everything you strive for
