I always thought Gu Yishen, the guy who sat next to me, was a “poor little thing” who needed special care. He was antisocial, hardly ever spoke, and was freakishly good at school. I treated him like my best buddy and had his back for ten years.
I thought our relationship was unbreakable, until I worked up the courage to confess my feelings and he silently turned me down.
Heartbroken, I decided to cut ties with him. But the moment a shady company cheated me out of my manuscript, that company was uprooted by a mysterious big shot; when I casually complained about how hard it was to start a business, a top-tier venture capital firm showed up the very next day, practically begging me to take its money.
I thought I had a lucky charm watching over me, until one late night I found an encrypted file on his computer named “Xia Mu Observation Diary.”
It read: [Day 3721: She asked if I liked her. I didn’t dare answer. I was afraid the stink of money and my dirty schemes would scare away the only light in my life.]
In that moment, I burst into tears. It turned out that in all those ten years of protecting each other, I wasn’t the one looking out for him. He had been scheming against the whole world, all for me.
