Online dating | Identity reveal | Secret crush | Older woman, younger man | Four-year age gap | Both are each other's first and only love
[Heroine: headhunter | Hero: algorithm engineer]
Zhao Jingshu has been having a run of bad luck lately.
Her landlord suddenly decided to sell the apartment, so she had to move;
a candidate ghosted her in the middle of the night, and her performance at work took a hit.
To broaden her recruitment channels for high-end talent, she downloaded a social app for highly educated professionals.
Her original intention was simply to build industry connections and get her career back on track.
But it didn't work out particularly well.
Still, she did meet a promising algorithm engineer.
Who could have guessed she'd fall in love?
Even if it was online.
She thought it was just a bit of fun in the virtual world.
Lately, she kept getting the strange feeling that her best friend's younger brother, who lived next door, was doing things that eerily coincided with those of her online boyfriend.
She reassured herself: They're both people, after all. It's only natural they'd have things in common.
One late night, she passed through the living room and saw that her friend's brother's computer screen was on.
The username she'd personally given her online boyfriend was displayed in plain sight at the top of the chat window.
Zhao Jingshu froze.
???
Zhao Jingshu finally understood.
So it really had been a romance scam.
She ended the online relationship abruptly.
As she was getting ready to go on a blind date, Song Jingzhe stopped her at the door, his eyes red.
“You figured it out, didn't you?”
In a nutshell: Younger guys? Not even a dog would... but I'll date one, because it's an older woman, younger man romance.
Note: The heroine has a career storyline.
