Scorching

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All the love and fear they never voiced were gradually reconciled through their long, drawn-out struggle.

Some feelings endure across the years and need no words.

Once, six years of mountains and seas lay between them. Now, every mountain and sea can be crossed.

The feelings that had lain dormant for years finally begin to grow warm in this moment.

Many years later, Qiao Zhiyi still remembered that summer after graduation, when, utterly disappointed, she painfully deleted all his contact information.

Six years later, he appeared at her company's celebration banquet as a business partner.

A major crisis erupts at work, and her boss orders Qiao Zhiyi to go to his company and handle it, warning her that if she can't resolve the problem, she shouldn't come back...

That night, Yan Shiyu knocks on her hotel room door. Qiao Zhiyi greets him coldly, and he asks, "What? Aren't you going to invite your old classmate in for a seat?"

He watches her retreating figure and thinks, "Looks like I've been done for by her in this life..."

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