[Wealthy CEO Shen Fuyuan vs. down-and-out heiress Li Yanyan. Elite families + passionate heartbreak + a long road to winning her back]
Li Yanyan came from a prominent family and was famous in the capital for her bold, carefree nature. Whatever she liked, she pursued openly and without hesitation. Once, on the school sports field, she grabbed Shen Fuyuan by the sleeve, her eyes bright with confidence. “Shen Fuyuan, I, Li Yanyan, want to stand by your side.”
Shen Fuyuan raised an eyebrow. “You? What makes you think you can?”
Back then, Li Yanyan lifted her chin, the confidence in her eyes brighter than the lights. “I admire your strength and excellence. I want you to stand shoulder to shoulder with me!”
“Only you can stand shoulder to shoulder with me.”
Later, Shen Xixi, the housekeeper’s daughter, fell into the sea and disappeared. Li Yanyan was branded with the charge of attempted murder. Despite the lack of evidence, her live-in son-in-law father forced her into a mental institution, where she was imprisoned for three years.
The day she got out, she discovered that everyone had abandoned her.
Her mother was gravely ill and missing. Her father, who had married into the family, was trying to take over the Li family’s assets and install the housekeeper in her place. Most absurd of all, Shen Xixi, who had supposedly disappeared at sea, had become the Li family’s heiress and was now holding hands with Li Yanyan’s former beloved, Shen Fuyuan.
She lowered her head and grabbed Shen Fuyuan’s sleeve, her expression unreadable. “You knew all along? Did you have a hand in everything I suffered over these three years... Hm?”
The fog rolled in, hope shattered, and humiliation, despair, and hysteria consumed her. At long last, her gaze became as calm as still water.
“Shen Fuyuan, let me go. I don’t want to love you anymore, and I don’t want to hate you anymore.”
“Take this worthless life of mine.”
