Elsewhere

[Powerful, assertive heroine × devoted, attentive hero | class difference | bittersweet romance | mutual salvation | from school to the city | reunion after years apart | both leads’ first love, happy ending]

Dan Yunzhen first met He Zhi at a party with friends.

She lost a game, so she casually picked He Zhi, who was passing by, to complete her forfeit.

One was an only child raised with an elite education, attending an international high school: beautiful, smart, proud, and used to making her own rules. The other had lost both parents, hauled bricks at a construction site during the day, and worked at a bar at night while raising his younger siblings alone.

They should never have crossed paths.

But Dan Yunzhen kept provoking him. She stood up for him, folded her phone number into a paper star and slipped it to him, then matter-of-factly said, “Take me out to dinner.”

Everyone thought she was just looking for something new.

He Zhi thought so too.

Until one day, she approached him again as if nothing had happened.

With nowhere left to retreat, He Zhi asked her quietly:

“Dan Yunzhen, could you please stop playing with me?”

Later, she brought him back to school and became the person he was most afraid to lose.

But in their senior year, Dan Yunzhen left for Country F alone, without saying goodbye.

Seven years later, in Hong Kong.

The boy who once had to check the average price again and again before he could afford to take her to dinner was finally sitting across from her.

But after seven years,

the way he looked at her was still exactly the same.