The Locust Tree Beside the Towering Mansion

[Youthful sweetness + mutual devotion and strength + school life to city life + rekindled love after a long separation]

Steady, resilient top liberal-arts student × bright-then-broken science ace

Devoted, loyal bad-boy lawyer × flirtatious, irresistible engineer

Lou Yuyu × Gao Shenghan

“Shenghan, you treat our lawyer Lou like a dog. The second he came back to the country, you went and fell for him again.”

“I’m fine with that.” Lou Yuyu looked at his shameless best friend and laughed instead of getting angry.

At fifteen, the two were fierce rivals at the top of their grade. Lou Yuyu told Gao Shenghan, “With a name that big, aren’t you afraid you can’t live up to it?”

The beautiful, radiant girl before him tossed her ponytail and smiled scornfully. “I’m alive to see just how high the sky goes.”

Later, during a truth-or-dare game, Gao Shenghan jokingly borrowed a line from a TV drama: “Lou Yuyu, I’m into you.” He took her seriously, and from then on, she was all he could see.

At eighteen, she left without a word, playing with his feelings and abandoning him. That night was all she gave him in return for the three years he had devoted to her.

When they met again, he was a star partner at a top-tier law firm, and she was an ambitious businesswoman.

Lou Yuyu gripped Gao Shenghan’s chin and asked, “Do you know? Gao Shenghan, I thought I’d hate you.”

“But when I saw you again, even with tears in those captivating eyes, all I could do was kiss them away gently. I could only worry about whether you’d been all right these past few years.”

“Lou Yuyu, tell me you love me.”

“I love you. I only love you.”