"Getting close to her was the only mistake in my risk assessment system and the most correct choice in my life."
Gu Ran, a top venture capitalist, is accustomed to using data to measure everything, including feelings. His world is one of precise models and controllable rewards.
Lin Wan, the company's youngest department director, is outstanding but lonely. She is the "stain" of her father's family and the scar of her mother, wrapped tightly in cold armor.
At first, Gu Ran's rationality told him: She avoids intimacy and is difficult to trust. She is the riskiest type of emotional investment.
But he was still attracted. By her tenacity under her fragility, her occasional tenderness under alienation, and her stubbornness that clearly longs for warmth but forces herself to push away everything.
Thus, an extreme tug-of-war began.
She pushed him away a thousand times, but he found a thousand and one reasons to get closer.
She used indifference as a weapon, and he used patience as a shield.
She said: "People like me don't deserve it."
He said: "Is it worth it? My system has been permanently down for you."
Later, when he fought against the whole world for her and protected her with scars behind him, his "system" only had one instruction left:
"All clear. This goal has redefined 'safe' and 'worthy'."
