[Many years later, it finally dawned on him that when she gave him jasmine flowers as they parted, she was hoping he wouldn't leave.]
Xu Moli first met Jin Yunci at a dinner arranged by her advisor.
He sat calmly at the seat of honor in the center, with tender-looking eyes and a cool, thin-lipped smile. He carried himself like an untouchable man of power, and everyone around him was fawning over him.
At the end, he fixed his gaze on Xu Moli, who had been silent in a corner, and asked with interest, "What's your name?"
She was quiet and serene, answering neither humbly nor arrogantly, "Xu Moli. Xu as in 'make a wish,' Moli as in jasmine."
He smiled and casually remarked, "It suits you. You really are just like your name."
Xu Moli met Jin Yunci for the second time on another rainy day.
Wearing a white dress, she stood by the road waiting for a car, like a stubborn flower bud on the verge of blooming, refusing to bend as the wind and rain battered her.
A black Bentley with a vanity plate pulled up in front of her. Half chivalrous, half teasing, he invited her in. "Little Jasmine, want to come in and get out of the rain?"
Xu Moli politely declined. "Thank you, but we don't know each other very well yet."
Later, she became a regular in that car, and the two of them became the most familiar of strangers.
*Serene college girl x Business tycoon
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[A few things to know before reading:]
1. The first male lead has NPD and is emotionally hollow, with little feeling and no morals.
2. Readers who want a chaste lead, beware!!! The male lead in the first half is not the same one as in the second half. He will be replaced.
3. There are two endings. This is a realistic story, written mainly as a cautionary tale, not a fairy-tale romance.
Theme: I give you jasmine, wishing you won't leave.
