Paris, Off Track

Family Heir vs. Project Director

[Happy Ending | High-Ranking Family | Two Separate Journeys to Meet | Class Divide | Two People Escape Reality and Fall in Love]

Shen Yanqi is a rising star in the tech world, sharp and ambitious at work.

But just as her project reaches a critical point, her boss forces her to take leave, and with a rival closing in, she books a one-way flight to Paris.

What KPI? What stupid project? I'm done with all of it!

A sudden rain shower on Paris's Left Bank

sends her dashing into an antique shop, where she collides with a pair of eyes as cold and deep as an abyss.

A platinum cufflink at his fingertips is worth her salary for ten years. Behind him, a Bentley that seems to swallow the light stands as a silent, unbridgeable gulf between their social classes.

Then she learns that he is Zhou Xubai, heir to the wealthy Zhou family of Beijing's elite circle.

Starlight over the Seine, lazy whispers in an old record shop, a kiss in the Tuileries Garden...

She knows he is the moon in the clouds and she is merely a passerby in the mortal world, yet she loses herself in this "last-night-on-earth revel."

"Shall we meet again in Paris next year, during cherry blossom season?" he whispers hoarsely.

"All right," she answers with her eyes closed, knowing it is only an illusion.

A year later, with spring blossoms falling like snow, Shen Yanqi goes to meet him alone.

She walks past the street corner where they first met and sits on the bench where they fell in love, calmly sealing away the heart-wrenching past in the spring waters of the Seine.

Her footsteps shatter the twilight. She walks away with her back straight as a blade, never looking back.

And she doesn't know that, from the terrace of a top-floor suite across the river, a deep gaze watched those cherry blossoms all night.

The empty bench and the lights on the far bank bear witness to the starry river that can never be crossed between them.

Their love, thrown off course, finally goes its separate way in a Parisian spring.