Once, Cen Zhiwei was widely recognized as the pride of her university.
For love, she hid her brilliance, gave up a guaranteed postgraduate placement and her career, and became the perfect, respectable wife after marriage. She stood by her husband, a penniless man who had married into a better life, as he climbed the ladder to success step by step.
Until she saw with her own eyes the man who had promised to love her forever clinging to his boss's daughter to advance his career.
He said she didn't understand how the real world worked.
He said the stable, respectable life she'd enjoyed all these years was thanks to him.
He said adults should learn to let others have their way.
After drinking herself into a stupor, Cen Zhiwei opened her eyes and found herself back at university.
This time, when the scumbag waited downstairs with breakfast, she didn't even give him a second glance.
Her guaranteed postgraduate placement, competitions, entrepreneurship, investments, the world of power and money...
Everything she'd given up for love in her past life, she would take back with her own hands, one thing at a time.
Later, the scumbag clawed his way up, only to spot the one person he least wanted to see at a capital investment gala.
She stood at the top, surrounded by admirers.
With her arm linked through the hand of the capital's most powerful young heir, she couldn't be bothered to spare him a glance.
At last, he understood.
She wasn't incapable of living without him.
Without her, he had never gotten very far at all.
