[Reunited Old Flames + Testing and Tension + Mending a Broken Relationship]
Five years ago, she was the pampered daughter of a powerful family, while he was just an ordinary upperclassman in her eyes.
Then her family’s empire came crashing down, and her father was thrown into prison. She fell from the clouds into the mire.
She flung a photo of him “trying to get close to a rich girl” in his face, each word cutting deep:
“Si Linpei, get this straight. Even if my family has fallen, I don’t need some poor scholarship student like you to pity me. We’re over.”
She turned and disappeared into the heavy snow, never letting him see her tears. From then on, their paths never crossed again.
Five years later, at a bidding conference,
she was a debt-ridden architectural designer scrambling to make ends meet, delivering a final presentation on her team’s hard work.
He was the formidable client in charge of a ten-billion-yuan project, seated below her with the power to decide the fate of her proposal.
He closed the plan and rejected it in front of everyone, each word striking like a knife: “Guangying Design, eliminated.”
Their eyes met. His gaze held nothing but indifference.
She thought fate had slapped her in the face by bringing them together again, but then she received a call from him personally:
“Designer Jing, come to my office tomorrow and present your proposal one-on-one.”
She walked on eggshells, but he pressed her at every turn:
Endless late-night revisions, deliberate humiliation over drinks, even a private agreement that she had to be “available whenever he called”...
Using his position as the client, he spun an inescapable web and trapped her by his side.
She didn’t know that behind his low-key demeanor stood a colossal family dynasty based in the north.
And he had no idea what truth and sacrifice lay behind her ruthless decision all those years ago.
“Si Linpei, we’re even.”
“We’re not.” He pinned her against the glass curtain wall atop the building, with the city lights stretching endlessly below.
She thought she had stooped from the clouds to reach the dust, but all along, he had been waiting on the mountaintop for her to return.
New story, hope you all like it.