Heavy rain poured down like a waterfall. Lin Wanxing curled up on a bench in the hospital corridor, the screen of her phone casting a dim, eerie glow in the dark. The latest message remained at 3:17 AM, the last one sent by Gu Chenzhou: "Wait for me to come back." At that moment, the shrill alarm of the monitor pierced the air. She stared at the flashing red light of the operating room, her nails digging deep into her palms, as if that could stop the agonizing pain of her heart being brutally ripped out.
Late autumn, three years ago. It was the first time Lin Wanxing met Gu Chenzhou. When she burst into the CEO's office clutching her design drafts, the man was leaning back in a leather chair, a cigar held between his well-defined fingers. Amidst the swirling smoke, he raised his eyes to look at this clumsy intern, his gaze pausing briefly on the employee badge pinned to her chest: "Lin Wanxing?"
Back then, she was merely the most insignificant newcomer in the design department, while Gu Chenzhou was already the youngest helmsman of the Gu Group. Rumor had it that he was iron-fisted and decisive, yet after seeing the proposal she had stayed up all night revising for the seventh time, he made the unprecedented remark during a routine meeting: "Execute this proposal according to Xiao Lin's ideas."
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