CEO Wen, Your Ex's One True Love Is Back

Wen Suisui and Mu Jingchi had been in love for five years and were about to get married when she discovered she was nothing but a fallback option.

Wen Suisui would fight to keep someone, but she'd never cling to them.

When they broke up, she said, "May my future be bright, and may you spend the rest of your life alone."

Even if she was as powerless as an ant trying to shake a tree, she wouldn't lose heart. As the Xunzi's Encouraging Learning puts it: "With perseverance, even metal and stone can be carved."

She pulled herself together and joined forces with her childhood sweetheart, vowing to bring down the business empire built by the Qiu family.

She heard her childhood sweetheart was a devoted romantic too. He treasured the bamboo gourd hanging around his neck and never took it off.

Mu Jingchi had his reasons.

The one he loved had always been Wen Suisui.

But to achieve his own goals, he had no choice but to bury his true feelings beneath a layer of ice, letting them frost over and freeze until he nearly forgot what warmth felt like.

Yet whenever he saw Wen Suisui turn and walk away, that ice silently cracked. It turned out that even the deepest schemes could never withstand a single heartbeat's betrayal.

Once his wish came true, Mu Jingchi went to Wen Suisui to ask for another chance, only to have a tall man block his way. "Mu Jingchi, have some self-respect.

You have your own first love, and so do I.

Wen Suisui gave me this bamboo gourd..."