The Campus Belle and the Rich Playboy: A Love-Hate Story

Lin Xiaoya was the campus belle wherever she went, from elementary school and middle school to high school and university. She excelled in her studies, was kindhearted, and had a lively, warm personality. Fu Mingyu was a spoiled rich kid. His father, Fu Zhiyong, had once been the top official at the city construction bureau. After leaving government service to go into business, he became Haicheng’s richest man. Fu Mingyu was sent to juvenile detention at sixteen, married at twenty-six, sentenced to prison for bribery at twenty-seven, and divorced at twenty-eight. Lin Xiaoya’s father and Fu Mingyu’s father had served in the army together and shared a love of chess. Fu Zhiyong often visited Lin Xiaoya’s home to play chess. One day, when Fu Mingyu went to pick up his father, he happened to meet Lin Xiaoya, who had come home for summer vacation. Deeply captivated by her beauty, he asked his father to introduce them, but his father flatly refused. He believed his son’s checkered past made him unworthy of Xiaoya. Undeterred, Fu Mingyu launched an all-out pursuit of her...