Sorry! We’re Strangers

[1v1, Second Chance Romance, Devoted Husband, Hard-Won Pursuit, Both Pure, Healing]

(A troubled, brooding illegitimate son x a bright, glamorous rose of a superstar)

In high school, Ruan Xia saved a boy named Zhou Ye from being bullied.

The day she first met him,

he had bruises at the corner of his mouth.

The people who had beaten him had just left.

Ruan Xia felt sorry for Zhou Ye,

so she became his self-appointed “protector.”

…

Zhou Ye didn’t understand why Ruan Xia, the class monitor, had suddenly started approaching him

and tutoring him nonstop.

Later, he realized she thought he was being bullied.

Zhou Ye found it ridiculous.

Did he look like some poor little victim?

Still, thanks to Ruan Xia,

the teachers stopped giving him a hard time,

so Zhou Ye decided he didn’t mind.

…

Before long, things between them seemed to grow more and more flirtatious.

Ruan Xia thought Zhou Ye liked her, too,

so she decided to confess.

But on the day they’d arranged to meet,

Zhou Ye showed up with several other people.

Someone asked him, “Is she your friend?”

Zhou Ye looked at Ruan Xia

and said coolly, “I don’t know her.”

…

Five years later,

superstar Ruan Xia is dazzlingly successful.

When the media ask whether she’s ever had a first love,

she smiles and shakes her head. “No.”

But someone clearly saw the newly returned heir to the Zhou family, a rising power in Beijing,

corner the superstar at a banquet, looking utterly lost.

Everyone starts asking Ruan Xia if she knows the man from Beijing’s elite circles.

She parts her red lips and smiles coolly. “I don’t know him.”

…

Later, after Zhou Ye succeeds in winning her back,

he can’t wait to show off their marriage certificate.

Onlookers: Wait, you two call that “not knowing each other”?

(School romance + showbiz. The male lead had his reasons for leaving! No angst!)