Name: Lost in the Heavy Fog [Broken Up, Reunited]
Author: Watching the Sunset

Synopsis

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● Cool-headed and resilient X Refined scoundrel

◎ Oil painter/curator and agent X Venture capital CEO

Rekindled love / Long-laid plans / The powerful one bows his head / Brooding ex / Sweet-and-sour push and pull

Everyone knows how the arrogant Young Master Shen fell into Xia Wu's hands.

The favored son of heaven skipped his own graduation ceremony just to pose nude for Xia Wu.

Wet oil paint trickled down the muscles of his back.

Shen Jie caught Xia Wu by the wrist and pinned her against the swaying easel. His breath hovered between her lips. "Wu Wu, look at me. Tell me you love me."

That was also the day Xia Wu deleted all her contact information.

One one-way ticket, and she was gone for good.

1.

They reunite five years later.

At the anniversary banquet, her fiance took her hand and introduced her respectfully: "President Shen, this is my fiancee."

The man sat at the head of the table, his gaze deep beneath silver-rimmed glasses.

After a long moment, he curled his lips and remarked, "You have good taste."

As they brushed past each other, Shen Jie drained his glass. His long fingers slipped beneath the shadow of her skirt, and he gave her waist a light pinch.

Xia Wu stiffened all over. A familiar shiver surged through her.

He still remembered. That was the spot where she was most ticklish.

2.

Cold rain battered the car roof in a dull, erratic rhythm.

Xia Wu reached for the door lock, but the man behind her seized both her wrists with one hand and pinned them hard against the window.

"When he touches you in bed..." He stared at her trembling fingertips. "Do you shake like this, too? So much you can't even hold a paintbrush?"

Smack!

The sharp slap drowned out the rain.

Xia Wu wrenched herself free, her chest heaving. "Shen Jie, we're over! Don't push me too far!"

The blow turned his face aside. He pressed his tongue against his numb cheek.

A moment later, he began to laugh softly and leisurely undid one of his collar buttons.

"This is too much for you?" He moved closer. "Wu Wu, I can be much worse."

■Lost in the heavy fog, I slept through the years.

Only when the fog lifted did I know I loved you.

[Reader's Guide]

📍They reunite at the beginning. Primarily urban romance, with the male lead secretly in love and a happy ending. College memories are interspersed, mostly in the earlier part. Later comes the workplace plot and a rivalry among three exes.

📍They are each other's first love and both have only had one partner. But the female lead dated two people after their breakup; they were both virgins, too, though they had no obligation to be. She's had both Chinese and Western cuisine.

📍The male lead is sexually inexperienced. There is no plot where he's mistaken for being involved with another woman. Likewise, the female lead isn't mistaken for anything: it isn't a misunderstanding, she's done it all. [Don't read if you hold the female lead to high moral standards.]

[25.2.27 / Revised 7.17]

❤Coming next❤ "Wife-Loving Obsession [Marriage Before Love]"

● Scatterbrained, sunny girl X Fatherly, unattainable beauty

◎ Art docent X University professor Daddy

[Fake] teacher-student / Marriage Before Love / Old flames reignite / Long-laid plans / Stealing someone's partner

Ming Zhi was entangled with her ex-boyfriend for seven years.

They broke up and got back together so many times, keeping things so secret that they didn't dare tell their families.

After he dumped her yet again, she agreed out of spite to a blind date arranged by her family.

The date was at a private teahouse.

Ming Zhi pushed open the door absentmindedly. Through the swirling tea steam, she saw the man sitting across from her.

A white shirt, gold-rimmed glasses, and a cool presence like snow on a mountain.

It was Shi Yue, her college elective professor.

Her most mortifying memories surged back in an instant.

Back when she and her ex-boyfriend were at their worst, Professor Shi had repeatedly helped them sort out their relationship in his capacity as an elder.

Ming Zhi thought he'd forgotten her long ago, so she lowered her head and tried to hide, hoping for the best.

But the man set down his teacup. His deep gaze cut through the steam and landed right on her.

"Ming Zhi." "Here!"

Ming Zhi jumped to her feet when called, looking as awkward as a student who hadn't done her homework. "G-good afternoon, Professor Shi."

Shi Yue smiled and pushed a cup of hot tea toward her, gently correcting her. "Ming Zhi, 'Professor Shi' isn't quite an appropriate way to address me on a blind date."

-

[Who else could put up with your temper? Once you're done throwing a tantrum, come crawling back.]

That night, Ming Zhi received another message from her ex-boyfriend.

She went crying to a bar to get drunk, then, fueled by alcohol, sent a WeChat message with trembling hands:

[Professor Shi, is your suggestion from earlier still on the table?]

She thought the message would sink without a trace.

But just one minute later, he replied:

[It is. Tomorrow at nine. Bring your household register. I'll pick you up.]

Ming Zhi made up her mind and married him.

-

Chi Chuan had always thought Ming Zhi was just throwing a tantrum.

Until he heard she was really getting married.