Late Evening Among Pear Blossoms

[One-on-one, from school days to the wedding altar] + [saving one another] + [slightly angsty, sweet romance with a happy ending]

Gu Li transmigrated to a parallel world after a car accident in middle school. Six months after taking the college entrance exam in that world, she died of an illness and returned to her original world, back to her high school days. Her memories were jumbled, and she forgot Jiang Muci. She only knew him as a poor, lonely boy whose scumbag father had abandoned him to marry someone else, and whose mother had taken her own life. Unable to help feeling sorry for her unfortunate neighbor, she decided to look out for him. The aloof, unapproachable boy gradually softened, and when her memories returned, she felt even more sorry for the neighbor she had known since childhood.

But why was the poor boy who always told her to stay away from him acting more and more strangely?

He often grinned roguishly, ruffled her hair, and leaned close to her, his voice tender as he said, “A Li, why are you so adorable?”

Even more unexpectedly, the poor boy in her eyes smiled as he crushed his enemies beneath his feet, ruthlessly driving their company into bankruptcy before acquiring it. While everyone else was hard at work in college, he had already become the youngest business magnate in the industry during his sophomore year.

Gu Li: ?

Then the business magnate showed up at her family’s little barbecue shop with proof of his assets, pulled her into his arms, and asked carefully, “Is this enough for the bride price? If not, can we get the marriage license first and make up the rest later?”

Gu Li: Where was the poor little guy she knew?!

Jiang Muci: “A Li, so this is what you like? I can pretend to be pitiful...”