Xu Zhiyi and Lu Fengting first met by a rice paddy.
Seven-year-old Xu Zhiyi was helping her parents plant rice seedlings in the flooded field.
Lu Fengting, meanwhile, was taking part in a kindergarten activity to experience the joys of farming.
Barefoot, Xu Zhiyi waded through the mud, helping the adults distribute seedlings,
while the pampered young master in rain boots frowned and refused to step into the field.
A narrow ridge between the paddies, two separate worlds.
Six years later, Xu Zhiyi left the countryside thanks to her excellent grades and was admitted through a special program to the most famous middle school in the city.
She and Lu Fengting became deskmates, first for three years, then for another three.
At their graduation banquet in their final year of high school, as they were about to go their separate ways, a tipsy classmate sitting in front of her gossiped that Lu Fengting had received a thirty-million-yuan house for his eighteenth birthday.
Xu Zhiyi looked up at the sky. "Even in my dreams, I only dare to dream of five million."
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On the day she received her PhD offer, Xu Zhiyi happened to learn that Lu Fengting was engaged.
Beneath a sky full of fireworks, her tears fell silently, unnoticed by anyone.
She spent the whole night in the riverside wind.
Before dawn, she sent Lu Fengting a message of congratulations.
She put away her phone and kept reminding herself: Let this years-long unrequited love end here. They had always belonged to two different worlds.
Just as she was about to leave, her phone chimed with a new message.
She stared at the screen, stunned, her eyes turning red.
[Lu Fengting: The bride ran off. Would you come and save the day?]
Theme: Work hard and become a better version of yourself
Is the hero really going to get engaged to someone else? Or is it a deliberate trap for the heroine?
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