A Night Only You and I Know

#People who could never be together end up together#

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Fu Chengshan, heir to the prestigious Fu family, the most prominent household in the city, and head of the Kai Rui Group, is in Aodao handling a commercial property acquisition with ruthless efficiency.

He's a flirt with a string of lovers, always treating romance as a pastime. No one has ever stayed by his side for more than three months.

Lin Jingshui is an ordinary senior college student doing an internship, enduring a grueling hotel placement and hoping to graduate without a hitch.

Two people worlds apart would never have ended up together if fate had followed its original course.

But that's the magic of "fate": the tiny sliver of "possibility" hidden within the impossible.

It was the night a chinaberry tree burned down.

Fu Chengshan was in a serious car accident. While saving him, Lin Jingshui accidentally split his head open, covering more than half his face in blood.

Later, once he was out of danger, she vanished without a trace, leaving behind nothing that could identify her.

First, she was afraid she'd caused some terrible injury when she hit his head and didn't want to be held responsible. Second, for her own selfish reasons, she'd secretly used him to do something less than honorable.

Five years later.

He's a wealthy man of leisure; she's a boss whose career is on the rise.

They meet again by chance at a ski resort.

The sky is gloomy, and heavy snow blurs the view.

She stands beneath the observation platform, looking up at the man standing on it.

His sharp, cold features are clearer than a fine-line painting. His gaze cuts straight through the endless snowfall to meet hers.

Suddenly, she thinks of the opening line of Snow Country:

Crossing the long tunnel between the prefectures, one finds the Snow Country.

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After waking from the car accident, Fu Chengshan is told by his family and friends that the so-called "life-saving benefactor" was nothing but a figment of his imagination and never really existed.

He has no choice but to give in, holding on to a faint hope in his heart.

Like the two detectives in the game Disco Elysium, who take on an apparently impossible task: [Find the Insulindian phasmid].

One day after reuniting with Lin Jingshui, Fu Chengshan tells her:

"Of all the living things I've ever seen, you're the most beautiful."

This is what Detective Harry exclaims when he finally finds the legendary, mysterious Insulindian phasmid.

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#Older man, five-year age gap

#Real and fictional place names are mixed together, and the setting is entirely made up. Please treat the world of the book as its own and don't fact-check it against reality.

[Reader's Guide]

■ "Peace and friendliness are boring, so all the main characters are messed up". Readers who disagree with this, beware!

■ If you enjoy all kinds of smut, and love rolling up your sleeves to try anything weird you come across, jump right in, now!

■ The story takes its time getting started, but at heart, it's romantic.

#The cover and character illustrations are based on works by the 19th-century painter Vincent van Gogh.

#The words used for the theme are from Yu Dafu.

Theme: Because the osmanthus blooms late, its season lasts longer.