short series

The Unexpected Us

share time: 2025-11-13 00:30:25

Zhang Ruyi, a rigid publishing editor, lives her life like a perfectly bound book—until one morning, Lin Shen, a sharp-suited man with a cardboard box, blocks her door. Her best friend secretly rented the spare room to this "stranger." From bickering over the bathroom to late-night porridge left for her overtime, Lin Shen is like an unexpected candy, slowly melting her "sense of rules." But when Zhang Ruyi discovers Lin Shen is a software engineer on the run from industry corruption, hiding to finish a program that exposes the truth, her "stable life" shatters: she helps him hide the hard drive, accompanies him to find evidence, and even stands in front of him when he’s in danger. On the night before Lin Shen leaves after the truth comes out, he pulls out a yellowed fairy tale book—the gift Zhang Ruyi gave a bullied boy ten years ago. Turns out, their "unexpected" meeting was a ten-year "plan" he’d been saving up for.

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