Ten Years After I Forgot Everything and Threw the Ball

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Jin Li, president of Huaxing Communications, is cold and distinguished, decisive and ruthless, and also suffers from the standard domineering-CEO package of migraines and insomnia.

When he heard that a certain expert professor was about to leave Yunjing, he rushed straight to the university to try to persuade him to stay. Instead, he found the old professor fussing over a little girl.

The girl was fifteen that year and had already graduated from university. Unaccustomed to Yunjing's climate, she didn't want to pursue postgraduate studies and only wanted to return to her hometown of Jindu.

Jin Li (slapping the table): Absurd!

The old professor: She solved that technical problem your company was struggling with.

Jin Li: ...It's not impossible to move the company to Jindu.

Just after getting off the plane, he ran into the girl's father, who had come to pick her up. Jin Li managed a rare smile, only to get an eye roll in return.

The girl's father: Hah, finally remembered that your daughter and I exist? I thought you'd never set foot in Jindu again for the rest of your life!

Jin Li: ???

The girl's father: But let me make this clear first. You fathered her, but I raised her. You have nothing to do with her!

Jin Li (looking down at his crotch): ...Is this guy nuts?!

The last mission of Chen Yu's military career took place overseas.

There, he met a boy who had escaped from a compound. His face was smeared with blood, he was delirious, and he kept murmuring two words: "Go home."

Chen Yu brought the boy back to the country, but couldn't find his family. So the two lonely souls huddled together for warmth and made themselves a little home.

One day, five years later, the boy vanished without a trace. Chen Yu saw him again eight years later, on the evening news.

Looking at the handsome face on the TV, Chen Yu called his daughter to warn her.

"If you acknowledge him, don't acknowledge me! It's either him or me, not both!"

Chen Xingyue: ...Then let's bring him back to Jindu. What's the big deal?

Content warnings: 1. A second-chance romance between men over thirty.

2. The author graduated years ago. All university research and other such material in the story comes from the internet. Corrections are welcome.

Reading guide: 1. A sweet two-person romance, with a devoted one-on-one relationship, body and soul;

2. Amnesiac domineering CEO bottom x retired soldier top;

3. The entire plot serves the couple, so it may not suit readers with extreme character preferences;

4. This is a practice work with many flaws. No need to let me know if you drop it.

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Eight years ago, Qi Xu was the academy's most prominent new student, an S-rank Esper with a mythical phoenix as his spirit form. He was full of confidence and had a boundless future ahead of him.

Eight years later, Qi Xu was a single father with a three-year-old son, making ends meet by mining in the underground city.

His son was the child he had given birth to, sweet and obedient, the apple of his father's eye. As for why a man could give birth...

Good question. Qi Xu wanted to know, too.

After becoming inexplicably pregnant and giving birth, Qi Xu's spirit form withered and disappeared, and he fell from being an S-rank Esper to an ordinary person. He struggled and resented his fate, but in the end, all he could do was accept reality.

Life was hard, but his son was a delight. He made the best of a bad situation, and their days were peaceful and warm.

Until one day, his normally well-behaved son got into a fight with a friend, and his spirit form suddenly appeared: a little black dragon with wings on its back.

Seeing his son's spirit form, Qi Xu flew into a rage and, recklessly throwing caution to the wind, carried his son straight to the headquarters of a certain guild. He kicked open the guildmaster's office door and shouted:

"You son of a bitch, Jiang Yao! So you're the one who did this! Pay up, right now!"

Jiang Yao, guildmaster, heir to an Esper clan, owner of a mythical black dragon spirit form, and man facing the threat of bankruptcy, slowly raised his head.

"?"

Eight years ago, Qi Xu was the leading figure among Espers from ordinary backgrounds, while Jiang Yao was the cream of the crop among clan heirs. They never crossed paths in their daily lives, but whenever they met, they fought like cats and dogs.

Eight years later, life had long since worn down Qi Xu's rough edges, while Jiang Yao shouldered heavy responsibilities and struggled on the brink of bankruptcy.

When they met again, Jiang Yao watched the little black dragon fly around Qi Xu and his son. After a moment of silence, he asked a question that struck at the heart of the matter.

"When did we sleep together?"

...Good question. Qi Xu had no idea, either.

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Lin Wangshu had a dream. He dreamed he leaped from the top of a building, his heart filled with regret and unbearable pain.

He no longer remembered why he had jumped in the dream, but its emotions lingered. That morning, for the first time, he went to school by himself.

And then, right outside his residential complex, he ran into his classmate Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran had excellent grades and loved to study. His only misfortune was that his family was poor, and he was so quiet in class that he seemed like a shadow.

Lin Wangshu had almost no interaction with him, but from that day on, he began to notice that Xiao Ran seemed to be everywhere.

By the roadside during a rainstorm, at the school gate when Lin Wangshu had forgotten his student ID, in the exam room when he had no pencil sharpened, Xiao Ran would always show up in time to help.

At first, Lin Wangshu thought it was just a coincidence. Then, after asking his stepbrother for help with a math problem, he found two notebooks of mistakes on his desk, both bearing Xiao Ran's name.

When he opened them, he found all the questions he had once gotten wrong, along with the best solutions. One notebook was for his first year of high school, the other for his second.

Only then did Lin Wangshu belatedly realize that Xiao Ran had been watching him with a discreet yet intent gaze.

Xiao Ran's family was very poor. Poverty bred change, as well as gloom and resentment. Fortunately, when he was fourteen, at his most sensitive and insecure, he met a gentle moon.

Xiao Ran knew the gulf between their identities and didn't dare hope that the bright moon would shine on him alone, so he buried every shameful desire deep in his heart.

Until he saw his moon leap from a building and shatter on the ground.

He spent twenty years exacting revenge. On the day he finally avenged himself, Xiao Ran jumped from that same rooftop, hoping to join his moon.

When he opened his eyes again, he was reborn twenty-one years in the past, one year before Lin Wangshu's fall. Looking at Lin Wangshu's lively figure, he thought:

This time, no matter what, he had to prevent the tragedy. The first step was to cure Lin Wangshu's love-addled brain.

At first, Wangshu thought Xiao Ran was a peeping stalker. He was both afraid and helpless, but in fact, Xiao Ran was only using the advantage of being reborn to memorize every little detail about him.

Years later, when Xiao Ran really did put a tracking device on him, Wangshu told a friend who thought he had developed Stockholm syndrome:

"Xiao Ran just wants to know where I am. He's not controlling me. What's he done wrong?"

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Theme: Study hard and change your life.