Lin Ran will always remember that rainy day. The electric car stalled in the water, and all three takeaways were ruined. When he squatted on the roadside and wiped the lunch box with his clothes, a pair of white canvas shoes stopped in front of him. He looked up and saw Qin Yanran holding a transparent umbrella. The hem of her school uniform was blown by the wind. When she handed over a tissue, the thin red string on her wrist swayed into his eyes.
"Classmate, are you okay?"
It was the early autumn of 2018. Lin Ran had just dropped out of school for the third month to deliver food. Qin Yanran was the most dazzling presence in the best boarding high school in the city. They should have been like two parallel lines, going their separate ways after a brief meeting on that rainy day.
But fate had a twist.
Qin Yanran's college admission notice was hidden by her stepmother. The always elegant woman cried in front of her father, "Yanran has not wanted to study for a long time and hangs out with a food deliveryman every day." And Lin Ran, the boy who made Qin Yanran cry through the screen for countless late nights, deleted all his contact information one morning, leaving only the words "forget me".
Ten years later, Lin Ran became a technology upstart with a net worth of over 100 million. During the capital winter, he bucked the trend and acquired his old employer "Extreme Network". The spotlight at the press conference flashed, and he stood on the stage in a suit and leather tie, with the words "Reshaping Industry Standards" written on the giant screen behind him. In the first row of the audience, Qin Yanran was wearing a Chanel suit. The badge on her chest read "Special Assistant to the CEO of Speed Network".
She brought him a document. The whole chain of evidence about the conspiracy that forced her to drop out of school was as complete as a carefully prepared gift.
Lin Ran turned over the first page, his fingers trembling slightly.
That's something he's never seen before
