Xia Zhi’s family life was far from happy. Her father was a useless drunk, her mother selfish and scheming, and her grandparents favored boys, doting only on her younger brother. This made Xia Zhi a polished, self-serving person. She swore she would escape her family and cut ties with them for good. Then, in her second year of high school, she met Chen Yu. She discovered that he came from a wealthy family, was spoiled by his parents, and was rebellious, brazen, and ruthless. So she got close to him and used him, making him fall in love with her. Then, in the blink of an eye, she took money from Chen Yu’s mother and left for another country. She didn’t return for nine years. The day she parted ways with Chen Yu was at the end of autumn, the chilly autumn wind hanging in the air. She remembered Chen Yu shoving her into a corner, his eyes bloodshot and sinister, the veins on his forehead stretching down the side of his neck. “Xia Zhi, you’d better never come back. Never show your face in front of me again, or I really will kill you.” At the time, she thought that Chen Yu was a man of his word. He ruled the school, and no one dared cross him. Would he really kill her, or would he make her suffer before she died? Surely no one had ever toyed with Chen Yu like this before.
“Xia Zhi, you can use me, but you can’t leave me.”
You wanted to use me to escape the abyss, but all I want is to be your way home., Chen Yu
“Chen Yu, I will only ever love myself. In this world, loving yourself is what matters most.”
Because only when I learn to love myself can I love you wholeheartedly, with nothing to distract me., Xia Zhi
A heroine who seems selfish and meticulously self-serving but is actually insecure and fiercely resilient VS a loyal hero who seems cruel and cold but is actually a master of convincing himself to fall in love.
