In the north, the Xie family calls the shots.
It's no exaggeration to say that half of the North's GDP is firmly in the hands of the Xie family.
In the North, the Xie family has never needed to set any rules, because they are the rules.
As the only son of the third generation of the Xie family, Xie Wang was born a prince, doted on by everyone.
Gu Nian'an was born into the Gu family. Though less ostentatious than the Xie family, the Gus were a true hidden powerhouse. Gu Corporation controlled the lifeline of high-end manufacturing. Without the Gu family's approval, no one dared mass-produce the country's most advanced precision components, seventy percent of the total.
Unfortunately, the better the adults in the two families got along, the worse the two kids got along.
Gu Nian'an had always had a sharp tongue, and Xie Wang was no pushover either. Everyone thought the two of them would always be like this.
A week before graduation from senior year, Xie Wang unexpectedly cornered her on the rooftop. After hesitating for a long time, he finally said, "Wherever you go to college, I'll go too."
Gu Nian'an burst out laughing. "Xie Wang, are you crazy? Your dad would let you go to the South? If he found out you wanted to follow me there, he'd buy out the Gu family overnight. Don't you believe it?"
Later, Xie Wang spent the whole night negotiating with his father, who held absolute power in the North, and signed a betting agreement.
Later still, September in S City was unbearably hot.
Xie Wang stood on the second floor of a villa halfway up the mountain, drew back the curtains, and looked at the light that had come on in her second-floor window across the way. He replied to her message: "Good night."
To protect the person he wanted to protect, the Xie family's young master decided to quietly reshuffle the deck in the South.
