[School life in the early chapters + urban life later on + rekindled romance + secret crush]
[Clearheaded, innocent girl VS cool, proud top student]
At He Yushu’s very first art exhibition, someone offered a huge sum for one of her paintings, but she turned them down. She said the painting was only for display and wasn’t for sale.
The painting depicted a boy and a dog lying on the grass. The boy in particular was rendered with lifelike detail. Word spread throughout the art world that the boy was her beloved, which was why she would only exhibit the painting and never sell it.
Years later, someone spotted the painting in the office of the president of Chen Group.
“President Chen, this painting looks familiar.”
“My wife gave it to me for my birthday. It’s a portrait of me when I was young.” As he looked at it, his eyes brimmed with happiness and contentment.
When they meet again, Chen Yuelin takes the initiative, but He Yushu no longer has the courage she had as a girl. Faced with his feelings, she begins to reject him.
“The two of us are parallel lines. We’ll never intersect.”
“We’re not parallel lines. There’s an idiom that describes us perfectly: we’ve taken different roads to the same destination.”
He had been too proud when he was young, and everything came too easily. So when he lost it, he pretended it didn’t matter. In the years that followed, whenever he thought of it, all he felt was regret.
Very good-looking and youthful. Come on.