Shen Qingyue first met Zhou Jingxing in an old building at Jiang University, amid the deafening chorus of cicadas.
The man wore a dark gray shirt. He bent to pick up the antique book she had dropped. When he handed it back, his fingertips were cool and his features were aloof.
That was the first time her prediction had been wrong: he had buttoned his shirt right up to the top, impeccably gentlemanly, yet behind his eyes lay a wasteland that had been burning for eight years.
Everyone said Zhou Jingxing was the toughest man in tech: dull, rational, and so mature he was almost boring.
Only Shen Qingyue was determined to stir his desolate heart.
At the Jiang University library, she spotted the man who had specially changed into a hoodie and crossed half the city just to “happen to be passing by.” Raising an eyebrow, she said, “Mr. Zhou, that outfit makes you look young.”
Zhou Jingxing’s Adam’s apple bobbed. He looked away. “I’m thirty. I don’t have your energy.”
Yet that night, he watched all three seasons of the stand-up comedian she liked.
Later, the Shen family arranged a marriage between two powerful families.
Shen Qingyue pushed open the private room door, ready to scare off the supposedly “old-fashioned” match with a psychological excuse. Instead, she found Zhou Jingxing in the main seat, calmly taking a sip from an empty teacup.
The man looked up, a deep glint of amusement in his eyes. His voice was low:
“Miss Shen, I hear you prepared three tests to make me back down?”
[Playfully Mischievous Heiress × Older Tech Tycoon]
Both leads are each other’s first and only; equally powerful; universally adored
