The Old Mountain Is Worth a Visit

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Years later, Ying Chengze found Li Li and ordered, "Kiss me."

"You're drunk."

Ying Chengze looked dejected. "Then tell me you love me."

Kissing him would be better, then.

Li Li leaned in and kissed the base of his ear.

Ying Chengze was completely disappointed. "Don't worry. I'll get married, but I won't marry a woman who doesn't love me, much less a woman who can't love anyone."

Ying Chengze said coolly and distantly, "Since there's nothing between us anymore, we might as well be colleagues."

Li Li's heart clenched. "Is that the real reason you came to see me?"

Ying Chengze said, "Did you really think I came for you?"

As he spoke, a faint glimmer of hope showed in his eyes. He continued, "Or have you actually been hoping all along that we could get back together?"

◎ Since this is a second-chance romance, the leads only have eyes for each other. (Otherwise, how could they get back together?)

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1,

During college, Cheng Qingyou was a campus celebrity.

Chen Qingyou didn't even know the school had a boy whose name sounded just like hers until the mock debate tournament in the spring semester of her freshman year.

She was already planning to quit the debate team. Assigned to argue the affirmative side of the topic "Is living really more important than dying?", she rambled on, claiming, "The grief the living display for the dead is, to some extent, performative."

After she finished, the opposing team's leader suddenly called off the mock debate.

It took her several days to realize that everyone knew Cheng Qingyou, and everyone knew his parents had both died during his senior year of high school.

That day, everyone thought she had deliberately hit Cheng Qingyou where it hurt just to win.

After that, almost every time Cheng Qingyou saw her, he made a point of saying they weren't close. He even kept insisting they weren't close after she moved into his house.

2,

As graduation approached, Chen Qingyou desperately needed something or someone to give her a reason to get up in the morning and go to bed at night.

Standing in the living room she knew all too well, Chen Qingyou asked its owner, "Do you have a girlfriend right now?"

Cheng Qingyou frowned and raised his voice. "You don't know whether I have a girlfriend?"

Chen Qingyou didn't know, so she wanted to check first.

But Cheng Qingyou impatiently said, "Forget it. What, are you going to set me up with someone again?"

He didn't consider any other possibility.

Chen Qingyou lost her nerve and could only ask, "Then do you want to sleep with me?"

Cheng Qingyou acted as though she had dealt him a terrible insult and shouted, "Get out."

3,

"You don't need to hold me or kiss me. Just do it," Chen Qingyou said to Cheng Qingyou one day afterward, as he got up to head to the bathroom.

They weren't a couple. They didn't need to kiss.

Cheng Qingyou said, "This is just how I am. If you can't accept it, you can find someone else."

They really weren't a couple, after all. Couples wouldn't so casually tell each other to find someone else.

◎ Remember to eat well.

Theme: Love others as you love yourself.