What does it feel like to be unable to forget someone you’ve met only once? Xing Chen described it as feeling as though he’d lost his soul. After spending a year missing a piece of it, he unexpectedly ran into Zong Qing again and gazed at him in a daze for a long, long time. The way Zong Qing shook a cocktail shaker in the air, the way he lowered his head to look at a glass, all seemed almost unbelievable to Xing Chen. He had always moved through a crowd of lovers without letting any of them touch his heart, yet this bartender had made him settle down. From then on, he devoted himself to being Zong Qing’s protector. In the years that followed, Zong Qing’s prickly personality often left him mentally and emotionally exhausted. But how could you simply let go of someone you’d fallen for at first sight? Everyone else thought he was drinking poison to quench his thirst, but little did they know, he savored every moment...
