Youth + campus romance + flirtatious cat-and-mouse games + mutual testing + love that grows over time + both leads have no romantic past + second-chance romance
Also known as: His Plane Tree
A world-weary girl × a restless, ruthless boy
Shen Wu / Jiang Chi
At seventeen, Shen Wu was broken, incomplete.
The first time they met, Jiang Chi cornered her at the end of an alley. Blood streaked the handsome, youthful face of the boy as he looked down at her.
On a stifling summer night filled with cicadas, the whole school lost power. He pulled her into his arms, their foreheads touching as their breathing grew unsteady.
In that moment, her heart skipped a beat.
Jiang Chi was dazzling and uninhibited. His life was completely different from Shen Wu’s.
Each time their hearts stirred, they were really just two people trying to save each other. But Shen Wu still hurt him terribly.
In their final year of high school, she transferred abroad. Jiang Chi rushed to the airport and called her, only to have her hang up again and again.
Before her flight took off, she sent him a text:
“Jiang Chi, I’m sorry.”
Six years later, she returned to China to handle a lawsuit.
She was the lawyer representing Jiang Chi’s plaintiff, and just like the first time they met, he cornered her at the end of an alley. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
Later, after a dispute case came up, Shen Wu was assigned to work with Jiang Chi by her law firm. He worked her to the bone and gave her no personal freedom.
“How did President Jiang build such a huge company? You’re still the same as before. Are you expecting me to sell you this clause too?”
He pulled her into his arms, his eyes red. “You still dare bring up the past?”
Shen Wu thought, I could sell myself to you, too.
Jiang Chi: “The gods may not favor you, but I’ll be your god. I’ll reserve all my love for you alone.”
Love may come late, but it never fails to arrive.
A cool-headed lawyer × a tycoon CEO
