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In the blink of an eye, darkness enveloped Fengcheng.

Night came quickly during winter.

Outside the house, snow was falling, and a fine sheet of ice slowly spread on the ground.

Inside, Shao Cixin was wholeheartedly concentrating on taking care of her flowers.

She had two sets of flowers at home, both planted inside cute palm-sized pots.

These were the flowers Shao Cixin brought back from her mother’s a year ago.

One pot stayed with Wen Zhihan in her study, and the other stayed with the two of them in their bedroom.

Shao Cixin had learned many flower-caring techniques from both Lu Lan and Joanna, and she’d been growing these flowers very well.

Different flowers had different cultivation methods.

But some flowers were more delicate than others and needed her special care.

With the help of her Mrs. Shao, Shao Cixin had figured out such a method all on her own.

At this moment, she was leaning down to kiss the most special flower in the world.

Her neatly clipped fingers touched this flower’s stamens with care and expertise. Whether it was kissing or touching, Shao Cixin was always very attentive.

Such a delicate flower deserved all her tender love and consideration.

The fragile petals moved silently under her gentle touch.

In the reflections of her clear and bright peach blossom eyes, the flower beneath her seemed to shyly but slowly respond.

Beautiful and fascinating, it attracted people’s attention.

Shao Cixin wrapped all of her love around this flower.

Her moist and warm love, her unreserved love— She offered it again and again.

The long night was silent.

The air swam around their ears.

A faint heat rose in the atmosphere.

The bedroom seemed to be consumed by flames of love, and even the sound of breathing became infected, gradually growing impatient.

Shao Cixin heard Wen Zhihan call her name.

She always liked hearing Wen Zhihan say her name, but she especially liked to hear it in this moment.

It was in a different tone than usual—a charming cacophony that only belonged to her.

The atmosphere surged like waves, ushering in a turbulent tide.

The experience was like surfing in the summer, being pushed to the highest point in the water, their minds and bodies reaching the clouds, ethereal but exhilarating.

After the waves receded and the atmosphere calmed, Shao Cixin began to respond to Wen Zhihan’s gentle calls.

Like a devout follower, she lowered her eyes and kissed the soft white snow. She sacrificed her heart as an offering, and she could finally approach the presence of her goddess and kiss her.

Wen Zhihan raised her fingers to tuck away the few strands of black hair that had gathered around Shao Cixin’s temples.

Her fingers gently stroked Shao Cixin’s fair skin, and her long soft hair sank onto the bed as she leaned down and kissed her.

Their affection lingered on their faces like peach blossoms in full bloom, delicate and charming.

Shao Cixin gradually sunk into the kiss.

She always felt that she didn’t have enough.

She didn’t have enough time with Wen Zhihan, she didn’t have enough time to kiss Wen Zhihan, and she didn’t have enough time to embrace Wen Zhihan.

It was never enough. She wanted more. She wanted to be with Wen Zhihan in this life, in the next life, and in every life after that.

“I love you…”

She intertwined her fingers with Wen Zhihan’s. The tips of their fingers touched, and their hands were locked together in harmony.

“Jiejie, I will love you forever…”

She was making a promise to Wen Zhihan, showing Wen Zhihan her most sincere self.

If you missed each other once, you would never miss each other again.

I love you and only you. My heart will always belong to you, and no one can change this fact.

Wen Zhihan’s heart softened.

She was very content.

She had been chasing this love—this person for two lifetimes.

Her happiest occurrence was being able to become Shao Cixin’s other half.

She gazed at Shao Cixin and stroked her soft hair slowly, her gentle eyes reluctant to move away.

This was her Cixin. The Cixin who only belonged to her.

Shao Cixin leaned into Wen Zhihan’s arms and let her embrace her. She rubbed her head into the crook of Wen Zhihan’s neck as if she were somewhat dissatisfied.

“Senior Sister, you’re so annoying. You don’t even respond when someone says they like you.”

Wen Zhihan chuckled when she heard those words.

It wasn’t that she didn’t plan on responding, it was just that she had been distracted by Mrs. Wen’s beauty and forgot to speak for a moment.

Unexpectedly, she made her Mrs. Wen unhappy.

This issue needed to be remedied immediately.

She needed to coax her well.

Unexpectedly, before Wen Zhihan could enact any plans, Shao Cixin beat her to it.

She buried her head in Wen Zhihan’s arms and pretended to cry. “Wuwu, Wen Zhihan doesn’t love me anymore!”

Wen Zhihan: “?”

It wasn’t true, it wasn’t!

But Shao Cixin’s private drama hadn’t concluded yet. “Wen Zhihan deceived an innocent cute, pure, and witty Junior Sister, who loved her so much that she couldn’t breathe! After they went to bed together, she turned her back on this sister and disowned her!

“Wen Zhihan, a heartless woman!”

Wen Zhihan: “…”

Here it comes, her long and detailed character profiles had returned.

Shao Cixin continued to direct and act at the same time. 

She pretended to suddenly realize, “I understand. It turns out that Wen Zhihan was just greedy for my talent^[1]!”

Wen Zhihan couldn’t help but smile.

She said nothing. She just wanted to see what direction the script would head next.

Then she heard Shao Cixin angrily exclaim, “Damn it, it’s not my fault that I live well. But how could this overshadow my personal charm?!

“You can’t discover my beautiful essence through my technique!”

Wen Zhihan couldn’t let her act anymore. She was afraid that it would become more and more outrageous.

“Cixin.” Wen Zhihan interrupted.

“Huh?” Shao Cixin became disorientated for a second.

“Excuse me, Director Shao. How should I perform?” Wen Zhihan sincerely asked for some screen time of her own, mainly to please this Director Shao.

Shao Cixin gave her professional instruction without hesitation. “Hold me and say you love me. The rest is up to you.”

Wen Zhihan understood the assignment.

She turned and pushed the person in question beneath her. Then she tenderly looked into her eyes and lowered her head to kiss her brows.

“I love you, Cixin.”

She kissed her cheek. “I love you more than anyone else.”

Then her earlobe. “I love you…”

Shao Cixin wasn’t immune to Wen Zhihan’s kisses, and she couldn’t help but curl up her lips. Her smile was full of contentment.

She was just casually teasing her Mrs. Shao. Who knew that Wen Zhihan would actually cooperate with her so affectionately?

Especially when their gazes met.

—Shao Cixin could die from the way Wen Zhihan looked at her.

Once Shao Cixin saw Wen Zhihan’s tender sapphire eyes, her heart couldn’t bear it, and she hopelessly surrendered.

“Okay, okay…” Shao Cixin laughed as she was tickled by Wen Zhihan’s kisses. “You just have to say it once—Mmm.”

Wen Zhihan brought their mouths together.

Their breaths met and lingered between tongue and teeth, and they could no longer tell where one of them began and the other ended.

They were insatiable—wanting to experience it again and again after just having a taste.

“One time is not enough.” Wen Zhihan stared into Shao Cixin’s watery eyes and said softly, “I will say it as many times as Cixin likes it—until Cixin stops liking it.”

“I will never stop liking it.”

Shao Cixin held onto Wen Zhihan’s neck with both hands, her fingers intertwining at Wen Zhihan’s nape. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes were bright. Her appearance at this moment was especially moving.

“As long as you say it, I will like it. I will like it in this life, the next life, and forever and ever.”

She would never meet a better person than Wen Zhihan.

She would never fall in love with anyone other than Wen Zhihan.

She wanted Wen Zhihan and only Wen Zhihan. Today, tomorrow, and every day in the future, there would only be Wen Zhihan.

A charming smile gently bloomed on Wen Zhihan’s face, and happiness gradually filled her heart.

As long as she was with Shao Cixin, she was the happiest person in the world.

Shao Cixin liked to see Wen Zhihan smile.

All of Wen Zhihan’s emotions were beautiful and moving, but especially her smile. When she smiled, her sapphire eyes were slightly curved, like the bright and hazy moon or a charming and refulgent flower.

Her Zhihan had suffered so much in their previous life, so she should use this life to eat more sweets and experience greater happiness.

Shao Cixin’s desire grew. She raised her legs and hooked them around Wen Zhihan’s waist, her eyes as charming as silk.

“Senior Sister, do you want me to…”

A precious spring night was worth a thousand pieces of gold.

With such a good atmosphere between them, they should of course continue to do what they wanted to do.

—The main reason was that Wen Zhihan was too beautiful, and Shao Cixin couldn’t refuse her!

Wen Zhihan enjoyed watching Shao Cixin act coquettishly around her. She chuckled softly and replied, “Okay.”

She brought their mouths together again.

During the long night, their breaths became chaotic.

The white snow fluttered onto the ground outside their home, blending the sky and earth into one.

Their love for each other would last forever, and even time could not hope to extinguish it.

The producers of The General were holding a premiere event on January 4th.

The event would begin at three o’clock in the afternoon.

But at this time, Wen Zhihan was still needed in her office at Guanglan.

So Shao Cixin applied her makeup and left ahead of Wen Zhihan.

Sitting in the car, Shao Cixin gazed out at the receding scene through the window.

Suddenly, she was caught by a sense of deja vu.

A few days after she first came back from her rebirth, she was also sitting in a car like she was now, heading to the premiere of a movie she starred in.

At that time, she did not anticipate Wen Zhihan to come to the premiere as well, let alone everything that happened afterward, And she never could have predicted that Wen Zhihan possessed such deep feelings toward her.

It turned out that the person who loved her the most had always been by her side and never left.

Fortunately, they were able to meet again.

Fortunately, she didn’t miss her this time.

Wen Zhihan was destined to be her love.

“Is your family’s President Wen coming today?”

Shao Cixin suddenly heard Rong Ya ask this question.

Now was different from the past. Everyone sitting in the car knew that she and Wen Zhihan were no longer just pretending to be in love and that they were becoming more and more affectionate and intimate with each other.

Rong Ya only needed to open her WeChat Moments to see Shao Cixin openly flaunting her affection for Wen Zhihan.

Lin Mumu was the same. She never expected her artist to possess such passionate “wife-loving” DNA. For Shao Cixin, posting at least one day was the bare minimum.

“Yes,” Shao Cixin answered without hesitation.

Wen Zhihan promised her that she would come, and she believed in her Mrs. Shao.

After arriving at the event, the first person Shao Cixin saw was Zhou Hong.

Zhou Hong treated her with the same two-faced facade as always. She said she didn’t want to talk to Shao Cixin, but she ended up answering all her questions anyway, never once actually ignoring Shao Cixin’s existence.

The General was the first movie they had collaborated on, and both parties took the project very seriously.

Before the event began, they accepted a small interview together.

They smiled through the entire process and responded fluently.

After the interview was over, the premiere still hadn’t begun yet, so the two of them stayed behind backstage chatting.

Shao Cixin watched the reporters surround Director Long Hui, enthusiastically bombarding him with questions.

She turned to Zhou Hong and asked, “You didn’t ask your family’s Teacher Zhou to support you?”

Zhou Yi was a big movie star, and if he decided to come and help promote the film, Long Hui and the organizers would no doubt be delighted.

Zhou Hong crossed her arms, “He had something on his schedule.”

Shao Cixin understood.

But then Zhou Hong said proudly, “But after the event, he will come to pick me up.”

Shao Cixin clapped her hands in support.

Zhou Hong scoured Shao Cixin from head to toe, “What about you?”

She had heard from her agent that the organizers of the event invited Wen Zhihan, a big shot in the investment banking industry, but she hadn’t seen Wen Zhihan yet.

It couldn’t be that…she wasn’t coming, right?

Wouldn’t that also be somewhat embarrassing for Shao Cixin?

Shao Cixin leisurely fixed her hair. “She will be here any minute.”

She patted Zhou Hong on the shoulder and said in a mature tone, “My family’s Mrs. Shao has many things to do every day. She is not an ordinary person, please understand.”

Zhou Hong: “…”

It didn’t seem to matter whether she understood it or not??

Shao Cixin saw that the event still wasn’t starting and that a crowd had started forming around them, so she excused herself from Zhou Hong and walked out of the room to get some fresh air.

The only people who were allowed in the backstage area were the staff and guests as well as some reporters who had permission to enter for interviews, so Shao Cixin didn’t need to worry about being surrounded by fans.

Shao Cixin didn’t leave for too long before she arrived at a large floor-to-ceiling window. She tilted her head.

The sky was clear and blue, with no wind or snow, like the heavens had generously blessed them for their hard work.

The warm sun was shining high in the sky, and the sunlight gently fell on Shao Cixin’s body through the looking glass.

The golden rays gently traced her outline, leaping from her eyelashes to her eyes like sprinkled golden powder.

Her appearance resembled a goddess bathed in sunlight, sacred and beautiful, with not a trace of blasphemy on her person.

Shao Cixin liked the winter sun very much. Her whole body radiated comfort and warmth underneath its heat.

After facing the sun for a while, Shao Cixin stretched out her hands and spread her fingers, letting the rays shine on her palms before turning them over.

She was warming her hands up now so that Mrs. Shao wouldn’t feel that they were cold later.

At this moment, Shao Cixin suddenly heard a familiar voice calling from not far away, “Mrs. Wen.”

Almost instantly, she whipped her head in the direction of the sound. 

Wen Zhihan was lowering her phone and ending her call with an employee who had contacted her. After she was done, she looked up at Shao Cixin again.

Their eyes met in the warm air.

When their gazes locked, they saw a smile rising from the corners of each other’s lips.

The next moment, Shao Cixin had already lifted up her dress and was running towards the person she loved—

“Zhihan!”

Her light cloak flew behind her like a night sky full of stars.

Her beautiful eyes resembled the autumn waves, and her smile a warm winter reflection, moving and beautiful. 

Wen Zhihan saw Shao Cixin running toward her with the blinding silhouette of the window behind her, just like a dazzling beam of light, brilliant and moving.

She stretched out her hands and, as Icarus, embraced her sun.

At this moment, she suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction.

In her first life, she restrained her love and dared not to go forward and hold Shao Cixin.

But in her second life, it was Shao Cixin herself who took the initiative to run toward Wen Zhihan and become her sun.

Wen Zhihan held Shao Cixin’s hand, her clear and beautiful eyes full of unfathomable tenderness. “Something happened and I came later than expected. Has Cixin been waiting for a long time?”

Shao Cixin shook her head with a smile. “No. As long as you come, it’s okay. It’s never too late.”

She asked, “Were you busy today? If I had known you were going to be busy today, I wouldn’t have asked you to come…”

Wen Zhihan responded, “No, I’m not busy. I only have one job today, which is to attend the premiere of the movie starring my Mrs. Wen.”

“Really? Don’t lie to me just to make me happy.”

“Really. I’m not lying.”

“That’s good. You are the best, I love you~”

When Wen Zhihan saw that Shao Cixin was happy, she stopped them in their steps and lowered her head for a kiss.

Shao Cixin understood Wen Zhihan’s intentions. She kissed her without saying a word, her mouth wide with joy.

Feeling her wife’s passionate love on her lips, Wen Zhihan curved her lips and responded, “I love you too.”

They held each other’s hands and walked side by side.

They gazed at each other with smiles in their eyes as they chatted along the way.

So long as one of them was in the other’s line of sight, their lips would pull up into a smile, unconsciously revealing their joy, letting the other person know:

As long as it’s you, I will be happy.

Wen Zhihan slowly tightened Shao Cixin’s hand.

Their meeting was the most perfect reunion in the world.

The author (热到昏厥) has something to say:

Open your mouth and eat sweets!

I feel like I can finish the main story at any point now. Every chapter I’ve written recently has the feeling of an ending.

The translator (AmEricaNo) has something to say:

Announcement: I’m going on vacation! For three weeks 🫣

Don’t worry, I’ve already scheduled all of the chapters, so DEDY updates won’t be affected.

I’ve even prepared some extras in case we reach any ko-fi goals…

In the meantime, please bear with me if I’m a little slower at correcting any mistakes or links that pop up (but also continue letting me know!) 🙏

^[1] In bed.

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