"I heard the Cen family's young master got played by that beautiful law-school valedictorian!"
"No way! They were so in love in college..."
"You never know what's in someone's heart! I bet the rumors are true. Maybe he was casting a wide net because he was afraid she'd dump him?"
Rumors were flying across A University, and supposedly irrefutable photos had been shoved right in front of everyone. But Cen Shu, the brazen and extravagant young master of the Cen family, refused to believe them.
"You asked me to investigate, and you checked the facts yourself! The evidence is right there. Why are you still going to confront her?" His close friend Jiang Yue held him back with all his strength.
"She wouldn't do that." Cen Shu's gaze burned with stubborn conviction.
"Look, she can't even keep up the act anymore! The moment the photos surfaced, she went straight to a nightclub!"
Cen Shu shook off his friend and stormed into the dazzling, disorienting Maze. Amid the deafening music, he spotted a familiar yet unfamiliar figure at once: bold red lips, heavy makeup, laughing coyly with a strange man beside her. She was nothing like the bright, innocent girl he remembered, walking across the basketball court with books in her arms.
"Cen Shu, now that you know, why bother coming here to corner me?" She shook off his hand. The cold distance in her eyes showed through even her heavy makeup.
"We've already broken up."
At that moment, Cen Shu watched her resolute figure disappear into the blurred lights, and his world came crashing down.
"Cen Shu, she went abroad." Jiang Yue's voice sounded behind him, bringing this youthful romance to an abrupt and humiliating end.
Four years later, the so-called "player" from the rumors returned.
Once lovers, they were now a formidable, inscrutable power broker and the woman who had left him. He hated her "betrayal," and his gaze was cold as ice. Beneath his businesslike exterior lay four years of unresolved heartache and embers that had never gone out.
It's such a boring early stage. The only thing that can interest readers in the early stage is probably the reunion moment between the male and female protagonists. In the early stage, there was really no way to capture the readers' interest.