Bottleneck

Chi Lianxue excelled in his studies and had exceptional looks. If not for his poor family, he should have been the center of everyone's attention.

Yet he wore a school uniform washed pale in every season, keeping to himself and standing entirely alone.

Throughout their high school years, his classmates remembered him only by the profile of his lowered head as he wrote.

Cold, and proud.

He was simply too quiet.

So quiet that no one knew he'd once had a relationship with Chi Zhanzhou, the only rich kid in their class.

And that he'd dumped him for the sake of his future.

In their senior year, two diverging paths lingered before Chi Lianxue for a long time.

One: choose Chi Zhanzhou and rise to success overnight.

Two: be the villain who breaks up with him and takes another road, one covered in thorns.

In the end, Chi Lianxue chose the second path and never regretted it.

So, years later, he never expected the two of them to meet again.

At the class reunion, Chi Zhanzhou looked more mature and steady, dressed in a suit and looking like an untouchable elite. But when he spoke, his familiar smile still concealed a knife, and beneath the surface, his feelings for Chi Lianxue were just as turbulent.

"Have you been building up your tolerance?" A strong hand closed around his cool, pale wrist. He looked up. Chi Zhanzhou's gaze had softened, but the curve of his lips still carried a barely concealed possessiveness. His tone was hard to read. "You should still drink less. This isn't a business meeting."

I still need your coming and going

The bottleneck of sorrow, the fortune of sensitivity

- "Bottleneck"

Archived 2025.5.11

Theme: Love or bread? I choose bread