Sudden Return of Proud Untouchable Ex

Prologue

I hadn’t attended a class reunion in six years. The moment I heard Chen Yinian wouldn’t be there, my heart finally settled- Trim repetitive expressions by varying or removing one "replayed" instance to avoid redundancy.

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It wasn’t that I didn’t want to see him.

I didn’t dare.

A man that proud, that untouchable, had once lost all composure because of me.

The memory alone made my chest tighten painfully.

Under the flickering lights, I sat in the corner of the Private Room, smiling politely at old classmates who came over to talk.

As the mood grew louder, I tried to shrink into the shadows.

I had just let out a quiet breath.

Then the door was pushed open in the middle of the Class Reunion.

A man in a black hoodie, face full of lazy indifference, walked in without warning.

The air froze.

Six years of buried pain—sharp, heavy, suffocating—surged up and crushed my chest.