Mr. Shang Wants to Go Public Again Today

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The first time they officially met, the young woman and her cat both tumbled into his courtyard. Holding up the tiny kitten, she looked at him with wide, watery eyes. “Would you be willing to adopt it?”

Later, she sat on the garden wall, still holding a half-eaten chicken wing, and smiled brightly at him. “I came to see the cat.”

Much later, she crouched on the wall outside his home, sobbing her heart out. “I was just passing by and wanted to see the cat.” The kitten shivered in her arms.

The man sighed and crouched down in front of her. A thin frost seemed to settle over his refined features. After a long moment, he broke into a silent smile and carried both her and the cat home.

Niannian panicked. “Mr. Shang, I really was just passing by.”

His cool fingertips gently brushed her brow, his gaze tender and devoted. “Mm. You were just passing by, and I didn't want to let you pass me by.”

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At the awards ceremony, Ji Niannian held her trophy and smiled radiantly. “I want to thank my husband. When I had nothing, he helped me shine before the whole world. Five years ago, he was an unreachable legend to me. Five years later, he is the brilliant light guiding me forward.”

The man's expression, stern for most of the night, finally softened for a moment. He gently turned the ring on his left ring finger, faced the cameras, and smiled.

“Think nothing of it, Mrs. Shang.”

Meeting you was the greatest blessing of my three lives.

[One-on-one sweet romance]

[Mutual secret crushes, unbelievably sweet]

[Eight-year age gap]

[A handsome, gentle man who's only good to the heroine, and a sweet heroine who's a spitfire around others but a timid little mouse around the hero]