The Love He Never Forgot

Cheng Ling divorced her husband as soon as she found out he had been sleeping with someone else, and went back to work as financial director. On the first day the new chairman takes office, she looks up and it is Xie Lian, the younger man she abruptly cut off five years ago. His first words to her are a private phrase the two of them used to trade, said in front of everyone. She is standing there in patched sleeve covers with her glasses pushed down her nose and her hair pulled into a dull low ponytail, and the whole office already jokes about how she presents herself. Cheng Ling has her own reading of the situation. Five years ago she was on Highway 318 with dyed hair, loud, reckless, going wherever she felt like, and that is the woman he fell for. She does not believe an ordinary accountant in sleeve covers is the same thing to him, whatever he says with the old code words, and she keeps working under him on that assumption.