Jiang Wan had a moment of softheartedness and agreed to take her best friend’s place on a blind date. She deliberately dressed in an outrageous, flashy outfit and did everything she could to ruin the date.
The man across from her remained cool and quiet throughout the meal, composed and unruffled, never taking the bait.
The next day at work, Jiang Wan was completely dumbfounded.
The man she had publicly “performed” bad manners for on their blind date was Gu Shen, the company’s newly appointed president, parachuted in from outside.
Her mortification reached its peak, and Jiang Wan wanted nothing more than to vanish on the spot.
She thought it was just a ridiculous, embarrassing mix-up. It never occurred to her that this was a reunion Gu Shen had been planning for years.
Six years ago, on their university campus, Jiang Wan had eyes only for someone else, throwing herself wholeheartedly into a love that was never returned.
Only Gu Shen stood silently outside the crowd, quietly gathering up the tenderness she discarded, watching her happiness and watching her get hurt.
Years of restraint, every step carefully planned.
He used a blind date to make his way into her world.
Her ex-boyfriend kept pestering her, office gossip ran rampant, and old wounds were opened time and time again.
Everyone could see that the cool, distinguished President Gu had a special fondness for Jiang Wan and always took her side.
People said Jiang Wan was lucky to have married above her station. Only Gu Shen knew the truth:
This love, which began with a scheme and ended in sincerity, had been the rest of his life that he longed for from beginning to end.
It turned out that every missed encounter and regretful parting had been building toward a perfect ending, arriving just as their love ran deepest.
