A Childhood Betrothed? Not a Chance! He’s Had a Crush on Me for Over Ten Years

[Dog-training romance] [Poor but pampered and capricious little troublemaker × the loyal, dim-witted son of a “landlord”]

Jiang Qingling lost both her parents in elementary school and had no choice but to live under someone else’s roof, staying with her aunt in the same village.

But no one in the village felt sorry for Jiang Qingling.

Even after the little girl grew up, she spent all day with her books, and someone was always waiting on her hand and foot.

“That girl from the Jiang family has a bodyguard who’s sweet on her. She’ll never go hungry.”

“She’s got that young master wrapped around her little finger. He stands there staring at her every day.”

Jiang Qingling said, “He’s the one who stands there watching me. What’s that got to do with me?”

“I don’t want him following me around at all. I would never marry a blockhead like him!”

“No matter how nice he is to me, I’m not marrying him!”

Jiang Qingling had said all sorts of cruel things, but Yin Shang was still happy to do things for her, protecting her from childhood onward.

Then one day, her aunt refused to let her go to college. With nowhere else to turn, she stood by the river and cried, “Yin Shang, if I marry you, will you let me go to college?”

A figure emerged slowly from the shadows. “Yes. Whatever you want, you can have.”

*

A single river separated Guzhu Town from Qicheng.

But one was a poor village, while the other was so dazzlingly prosperous it almost hurt to look at.

Ever since he was little, Yin Shang had loved crossing the river to play. There was a little girl over there, fairer than snow, and he loved going to see her.

Later, he heard that she had lost her parents. Yin Shang wanted the housekeeper to bring her to live with them, but she went to stay with her aunt instead.

That was all right. Wherever she went, he would stay by her side.

And so he protected her as she grew up.

People said she wasn’t good enough for him, and that he had spoiled her until she didn’t know her place.

He didn’t care.