Xiao Ciluo × Yin Guihong
Winter 2015, British Library, Volume 1 Dunhuang Heritage, No. 2001. When Xiao Ciluo lowered his head to turn the pages, he felt someone looking at him across from him. He raised his eyes and saw a young man—later he learned that his name was Yin Guihong. He had flown to Boston a year before him and walked aimlessly around the Harvard campus all afternoon, just to possibly meet him.
What they don't know is that Xiao Mingjin and Lu Huaizhang, the ancestors of the two families, were once close friends separated during the war years. The agreement "I hope the good relationship between the two surnames extends beyond books" has been buried by the years for half a century. And some people don't want them to recognize each other.
A "double-sided stage" agreement bound two people into public enemies and private allies. At the banquet, they turned around fifteen meters apart, they were tit-for-tat in the business world, but on the phone late at night, they exchanged information and protected each other's backs. The silver lighter, engraved with "XCL 12.17", Passed from one person's pocket to the palm of another, changing hands repeatedly and never being returned.
For twelve years, one has been chasing and the other has been waiting. Those who were chasing him arrived in Boston in 2014, and those who were waiting finally saw him in London in 2015. There were countless scenes between them, countless glances that met and then looked away, and countless unspoken words after "please cooperate".
Until that night at the apartment entrance, Yin Guihong no longer used the agreement to cover up——
"Xiao Ciluo, I like you. Since that year in London."
"I know. I've known it since the day you went to Boston."
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