Act with Impunity

"She's coming back to Haicheng tomorrow."

For four years, Tan Xingwei knew Su Xu only as a memory. Her older sister's beautiful, enigmatic classmate who went abroad and left a void Tan Xingwei tried to fill with embellished daydreams and forgotten promises. Now, a single message is enough to shatter her carefully constructed peace.

The past comes rushing back with a single question whispered years ago.

"Then when I come back in the future, will you come pick me up?"

Impulsively, Tan Xingwei decides to keep that promise, arriving at the airport with a bouquet of flowers and a heart full of unresolved feelings. But the Su Xu who returns is both the same gentle woman she remembers and a polished stranger who keeps her guessing. One moment, Su Xu is teasingly familiar.

"You haven't changed a bit in four years."

The next, she maintains an infuriating distance that leaves Tan Xingwei reeling. As they fall back into their old, complicated orbit, Tan Xingwei must navigate the treacherous space between a childhood crush and an adult reality, all while trying to decipher what Su Xu is truly thinking behind that perfect, knowing smile.

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