[Second Chance Romance x Professional Partners Who Tame Each Other | Cool-Headed Veterinarian x Bad-Boy Architect]
1
On a stormy night, Zhou Yu pushed open the door of Shiman Animal Hospital.
Rainwater trickled over the old scar on his wrist, a remnant from twelve years ago. The cat in her arms clawed at the worn, peeling watch strap around his wrist and tore it off. The watch broke and fell to the ground, its face engraved with their initials sinking into the muddy rainwater.
2
Once lovers who had torn each other's hearts apart, they were now client and contractor.
He handed her the renovation plans with a cold expression. “Close for half a month and tear down the load-bearing wall.”
She tightened her grip on the scalpel and smiled. “Zhou Yu, are you tearing down a wall, or the last thing I have left to hold on to?”
3
Later, the whole city was abuzz with headlines: Rising designer risks his life in a fire for his old flame.
In the thick smoke, Zhou Yu shielded her with his body from a falling beam. The watch was burned again.
Under the emergency lights, Shiman trembled as she opened the sealed bag clenched in his hand.
The cat-torn watch strap and the faded bracelet were tangled tightly together, like their festering wounds that had gone unhealed for twelve years.
[Little Scene]
One night after their reunion, Shiman slapped the restored, gold-trimmed watch against his chest.
“Designer Zhou, will you take on a lifetime project?”
Zhou Yu caught her hand and pressed it against his racing heart. “The price is steep... I want permanent residency right here.”
Theme: My light should shine brilliantly and burn brightly, not grow dim beneath the dust of worldly conventions.
