After escaping the fate of inheriting Wanxie and being shackled to her family for life, Jiang Lai sets off on the round-the-world trip she's always dreamed of.
For her first stop, she chooses the Tasman Glacier, which she's wanted to see since she was eighteen, and sets foot on the world-famous hiking route, Lake River.
She witnesses boulders as massive as the end of the world, sees Mount Cook drenched in snow and ice, and nearly tumbles head over heels off the glacier.
Jiang Lai has always dreamed of dying on the road. There are still so many sights she hasn't seen, but life has a way of drawing to a close when things are less than perfect.
But just as she slips and thinks she's really about to die on the glacier, someone deftly catches her by the waist.
“Another Chinese person... What could be so bad that you'd come all the way to New Zealand to end your life?”
Jiang Lai no longer wants to die, or to keep traveling.
She's fallen in love at first sight, and can't stop dreaming of getting into someone else's bed.
The woman's name is Zhuang Suyi. She has a mixed-race face, a figure like a model, and speaks English with effortless confidence and fluency, yet she's Chinese through and through.
Kindly taking Jiang Lai home, she cares for her in every way and becomes her roommate for a very brief week.
There is no flirtatious push and pull, let alone any deep conversations. Those seven days are blander than plain rice. Zhuang Suyi is the sort of person who buttons her shirt all the way to the top even at home, so prudish and old-fashioned that her stunning face is wasted.
Still, Jiang Lai is utterly smitten, and even with an injured leg, she wants to climb into Zhuang Suyi's bed.
Then, on the seventh night, Zhuang Suyi gets drunk. Jiang Lai finally sets aside her crutch and quietly reaches out to touch her cheek.
“Big sis, don't cry over a scumbag.”
“They say younger girls know how to comfort you, and that younger girls have sweeter lips. Isn't there one right here? Want to give her a try, big sis?”
Early on the morning of the eighth day, Zhuang Suyi tells Jiang Lai to leave.
She says nothing about their one-night stand, only telling Jiang Lai that she can't commit to her and is planning to leave New Zealand to clear her head in another country.
Jiang Lai knows Zhuang Suyi still cares about her ex, but unlike other suitors who give up when they see the odds, she simply brushes aside her platinum-blond hair and gives the most obedient smile of her life.
“You don't have to commit, and we don't have to be together. I'm just worried you'll be lonely on your trip, sleeping all by yourself in a cold bed.”
“I'm warm, and I know how to warm up the bed, and how to make you burn...”
“Big sis, let me into your pond, okay?”
[Flirtatious, carefree player x Cool, aloof model who knows how to reel them in] A social butterfly | A cloud of chastity
* They are not each other's firsts; 1v1 road-trip story. Jiang Lai is a supporting female character in The Scorned Beauty Is Coveted by a Crazed Obsessive. The setting is not an alternate universe.
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Theme: Love is the only thing that matters
