Han Yutong, twenty-eight, is a creative director at an international 4A advertising agency. Sharp-edged and no pushover, she gets publicly humiliated by a client during a pitch and fires right back. The client doesn’t get angry. He gives her a crooked grin. “Interesting. I want her.”
Yao Guanyu, thirty-one, is the vice president of Yao Group. He’s a rascal, laid-back, and not to be messed with. He doesn’t “pursue” women so much as “hunt” them: coffee delivered every day, showing up wherever she is, closing in step by step and never backing off. She says, “Stay away from me.” He says, “You can hide, but I won’t stop.”
From clashing as client and agency to her telling him through tears, “I’m scared,” and him answering, “I won’t give up.” From his declaration on the cross-sea bridge, “I’m not chasing you. I’m telling you that you’ll be mine sooner or later,” to her taking the initiative at the airport and saying, “Yao Guanyu, I want to be with you.” From nervously meeting each other’s families to Yao’s mother saying, “This girl will do,” Yao’s grandfather saying, “She’s better than you,” and Han’s mother saying, “He seems all right.” From their first disagreement, when he says, “You can refuse my gift, but you can’t refuse the thought behind it,” to him crouching down during her pregnancy and pressing his cheek against her belly to say, “Daddy’s off to work.” From Yao Niantong to Yao Nian’an, from two people to four, from their first meeting to a lifetime together.
Later, someone asks him why he has to have her. He gives a crooked grin. “Easy to get is no fun. She’s hard to win over, but I don’t mind.”
This is the story of two people who are both hard to win over, and how they gradually draw close, test the waters, fall for each other, and choose each other for good, until they write themselves into each other’s lives. There are workplace power plays, family opposition, misunderstandings and reconciliations, tears and laughter.
