Beyond the Starlight

Su Wanqing, a billionaire tycoon at the helm of a business empire, was used to measuring the world in numbers and contracts. But one accidental run-in turned her life upside down and brought her into Gu Yanzhi's world. He was a penniless recent graduate, living in a rented room in the old city and cobbling together his tuition with part-time jobs. Yet he had a smile so bright it dazzled her, and a stubbornness deep in his bones.

Everyone said Gu Yanzhi was trying to climb the social ladder. Su Wanqing herself thought their encounter was no more than a brief interlude in her life. She casually tossed him a check to send him on his way, but he returned it with red-rimmed eyes. "I don't want your money. I just wanted to apologize. I wasn't watching where I was going."

Later, she watched him sing for money in the pouring rain with a guitar in his arms, watched him scrape his knee rescuing a stray cat, and watched him argue his case with a professor in class. This young man, so full of everyday warmth, was like a light that had appeared without warning, shining into the world she'd wrapped in walls of steel.

She began to "lower herself" to enter his life: hiring him under the pretext that she "needed an assistant," quietly standing up for him when others gave him a hard time, and even awkwardly learning to make him