Speed-Limited Heartbeat

A road-rage incident leads to an unfair ruling that she was “entirely at fault,” but he becomes the one man she wants to speed toward, the only one worth breaking the speed limit of her carefully controlled life for.

In her first week behind the wheel of her new car, Lin Xiaoqi encounters an aggressive driver who keeps cutting her off.

She’s too timid to do more than mutter inside her car, but she pins the blame on the man in an identical luxury car at the next traffic light, even though he’s outrageously handsome.

She glares at him, and he notices. She gets flustered, and he raises an eyebrow. She slams on the accelerator and flees, perfectly embodying what it means to be “all bark and no bite, yet always looking for trouble.”

Watching the panicked little pink-and-purple car, Zhou Yichen decides this hit-and-run suspect is kind of interesting.

At first, it seems like nothing more than a ridiculous misunderstanding in everyday life.

Until she crashes into a barrier at a go-kart track and he, filling in as an instructor, helps her up.

Until he sees her shine in her field at a design exhibition, and all the photos he takes are of her in profile.

Until every ordinary Wednesday becomes something they look forward to, without ever saying so aloud...

He is a meticulous, rational elite lawyer, used to winning everything by playing by the rules.

She is a sensitive, gentle novice designer whose creativity knows no bounds.

They were two cars traveling in parallel lanes, until a mix-up sent them swerving into each other’s life paths.

“Lin Xiaoqi,” he says in the car on a rainy night, his voice low, as if delivering the most solemn closing argument in court, “I might like you even more than you think.”

Her heart pounds, but she can’t resist teasing him. “Lawyer Zhou, is this an additional piece of evidence for the record?”

He kisses her, delivering his final verdict through action: “Yes. You’re sentenced to spend the rest of your life by my side. No appeals.”