Wild Grass, Wildfire

[Secret crush + bittersweet romance + reunion after years apart + teacher and student]

When Zhou Yun was sixteen, she escaped from a remote mountain village.

She watched her mother get beaten to death by her grandmother, and heard with her own ears that she was going to be sold to a foot massage parlor. She climbed out a window and ran all night, her feet rubbed raw and bleeding. When she reached the county seat, she stood outside the county's No. 1 High School, staring at the students who got to go to school, and said, “They have such good lives.”

That was the day she met Lu Yuanzhou.

At twenty-three, the young master of the Lu family from the provincial capital had come to teach in the small county. The first time he saw her, those eyes full of hatred and envy struck him. The pampered young master had never seen a look like that: open, unhidden, and sharp as a blade.

He gave her a bottle of water, a loaf of bread, and a piece of paper with his phone number on it.

After that, he helped pay her tuition, rented her a room at a guesthouse, bought her shoes, and brought her meals. He told her, “Pay me back once you get into college.”

He tutored her, gave her living expenses, celebrated her birthday, and made dumplings with coins hidden inside.

She set her sights on S University in the provincial capital. When he asked why, she said nothing.

Because she knew he was there.

She had planned to confess her feelings. But outside the school gates, she saw his fiancée, a wealthy childhood friend.

She didn't walk over.

Five years later, she graduated from college and started an internship at a company in the provincial capital.

On her first day at work, she saw the man in the executive elevator, wearing a white shirt.

Lu Yuanzhou.

He didn't recognize her. She had changed so much since then, no longer the scrawny country girl who looked like a bundle of kindling.

But she recognized him.

Zhou Yun is wild grass and a wildfire, while her Lu Yuanzhou is the moon.