Teaching You to Fish

Both leads are devoted only to each other + childhood sweethearts + reunion after a long separation + mutual devotion + rekindled love

Brooding, calculating young heir vs. sunny, cheerful girl

Fu Zhiqing was born of an illicit affair. His father was absent for most of his childhood, leaving him aware that his background was far from respectable. He grew up mired in scandal.

Lin Yu is the only daughter in the Lin family line, cherished by everyone and bright by nature. The two meet when Fu Zhiqing and his mother are brought to Yucheng by the Fu family, waiting for the right time to be taken back into the family fold.

Lin Yu falls in love with Fu Zhiqing at first sight and grows even more smitten when she sees him again. Determined not to let her youth pass by and hoping to make the most of being close to him, the girl launches a passionate pursuit. In the end, she makes the young master Fu fall completely and helplessly in love with her.

They attend different universities and spend their college years apart. They argue, but they also share plenty of sweet moments.

But then disaster strikes Lin Yu's family, and a third party deliberately interferes. She painfully breaks up with him.

Fu Zhiqing goes to find her, only to see her acting intimately with another boy outside the school gates. All he gets in reply is, “I never want to be in a long-distance relationship again. I've fallen for someone else.”

When they meet again as adults, she has shed her once-innocent nature and become a polished, socially adept career woman, moving from one business dinner to the next.

At a party, Fu Zhiqing pulls Lin Yu into a dark private room and pins her against the wall, asking almost frantically,

“Have you ever regretted it, Lin Yu? Chasing me, being with me, breaking up with me... have you ever regretted any of it?”

In the darkness, Lin Yu bites her lip and says,

“No. I regret nothing. Chasing you, loving you, being with you, even breaking up later...”

The push and pull of adult love, with a happy ending at last, honoring all the years they waited for each other.