[Female growth + a touch of angst + a groveling ex]
A pure-hearted, hardworking newbie at work VS an arrogant, cold, sharp-tongued heir to a wealthy family
At 22, Yin Zhixia accidentally got into the car of Shu Yi, a 27-year-old rich heir, at the airport.
Yin Zhixia: “Sorry to trouble you, cousin.”
Shu Yi: “First the car, then the bed?”
“...What?”
“Get out.”
He thought she was a scheming plain Jane, while she found him arrogant and rude.
They met again at a bar. Both nursing heartbreak, they spent one reckless night together. She left him a note: “Good service. Goodbye, Mr. Mayfly.”
She never expected to run into “Mr. Mayfly” again during an interview at her new company.
Shu Yi changed his labels for her: dull, clumsy, stupid.
His constant challenges helped her grow. She learned a lot from him and, without realizing it, fell for him.
When he discovered her secret, he began coaxing her into becoming his mistress, hidden from public view. She kept striving to become someone who could stand beside him as an equal.
Yin Zhixia loved him humbly for five years.
Seeing Shu Yi at the airport with his first love in his arms became the final straw that drove Yin Zhixia to leave him.
She knew it was time to make a dignified exit.
On the day she left, she sent him a message: “Shu Yi, it took me five years to finally accept the fact that you’ll never love me.”
She wasn’t acting out of spite. She had learned to cut her losses. She left him without hesitation, and left the capital, where she had been unable to find her footing during the five years she lived there.
Only after she was gone did Shu Yi realize that she had long since taken over his whole heart. Yet she walked away in the very year he loved her most...
“Yin Zhixia, if I’d known how much I would come to love you, I would have offered you my heart from the very first time we met.”
