Rekindled in the Ashes

Mutual pining | Mutual salvation [Professional basketball player × Traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation therapist] When Xia Mo first met Jiang Chenxuan, she was fourteen and he was fifteen. Over the next ten years, he would lose games, get hounded online, and be insulted until he began to doubt himself. Over those same ten years, she lost both her parents and had no one to rely on. The world held only a faint glimmer of light for her. Ten years later, the boy had reached the peak of his career. He tested the waters with careful tenderness, then used his championship medal to claim her heart. She never imagined that the love song he had listened to on repeat eighty-one times would be the one played at his proposal. Jiang Chenxuan dropped to one knee and opened the ring box he had prepared long ago. “Mo Mo.” “Xia Mo.” “The woman I love most.” “I hope that on a day like today…” “You’ll say yes and marry me. Will you?” Xia Mo met his gaze. Tears had already filled her eyes, and now they spilled over uncontrollably. “Yes.” She stood by him when he was still unknown. He loves her for the sincere way she has always been.