A top student with a strong sense of morality and a good-girl image × a cunning, scheming fox of a man
Stealing someone's partner / The man patiently lays his plans / Class difference / Rekindled love / A guiding lover
[1]
At A University, Sang Yu is quiet and gentle, with excellent grades. Everyone sees her as a good girl.
Her boyfriend, He Ziqi, is gentle and considerate. Everyone says they're a perfect match.
Liang Xu doesn't agree.
He's He Ziqi's best friend, and a skiing champion from a prominent family. He's aloof by nature, with a face that gets away with anything, yet so arrogant he can barely be bothered to speak.
Except with her, he never holds back.
When his friends tease him for meddling, he says carelessly, "Ziqi's naive. I'm just helping him make sure she's the right one."
Everyone thinks he's simply a loyal friend.
Until one secretive morning, she wakes up in his bed.
*
The villa is brightly lit and filled with well-dressed guests on the night of Liang Xu's birthday.
But the birthday boy disappears halfway through the party.
The guests search for him in the courtyard, by the card table, and beside the bar. He Ziqi joins them, drink in hand, looking for her.
Meanwhile, in an attic no one knows about...
Liang Xu hangs up on the phone that's been ringing off the hook and pins her against a narrow window.
There are people moving around downstairs, and someone knocks on the door.
Sang Yu bites down on her knuckle, struggling to suppress the broken sounds escaping her.
But he pries her fingers away and bends to kiss them. "Darling, am I really so shameful to you?"
Sang Yu glares back at him, but he pulls her even tighter into his arms.
He smiles, as if he has gotten exactly what he wanted.
His wicked, lazy voice brushes against her ear.
"Baby, don't get back together with him."
"Otherwise, I'll let him in right now."
[2]
Sang Yu is a bona fide small-town striver.
Her goals in life are simple and practical.
Get into a good university, find a good job, save a lot of money, and buy a house of her own.
Her entanglement with Liang Xu is a ridiculous accident.
She thinks, how long could a rich young man like him really stay devoted?
When he gets bored, she'll take the breakup money and they'll go their separate ways, making a dignified exit.
Who would have thought that as she waits, she would eventually hear him say he loves her?
Sang Yu panics. She quietly applies for a publicly funded postgraduate study-abroad program and runs without looking back.
*
When they meet again, she is a renowned technical consultant.
He is the aloof, distinguished president of a corporate group, rumored to be a tough negotiator who acts decisively.
She thinks he'll take revenge.
But on a snowy day when they're trapped in a powerless apartment, she falls into a burning embrace.
Sang Yu no longer plays the role of the obedient good girl. She taunts him, "President Liang, you shouldn't go back to an old flame."
Liang Xu lowers his eyes and traces her brows and eyes with his fingertips, a self-mocking smile playing on his lips.
"I've tried to forget you all this time."
But I still love you.
Please love me, even if only once.
Reading Guide:
1. The heroine is clearheaded and has a strong sense of morality, yet the fox-like hero gradually wears down her reason. He's possessive and jealous even when he has no claim, but he's the guiding-lover type.
2. Happy ending, both characters' first time, one-on-one. The hero is devoted in both body and heart, with no past romantic entanglements.
3. The heroine only gets together with the hero after breaking up with the second male lead. There is no cheating.
4. This is not a competitive skiing novel. Some city settings and profession-related details are fictional.
Theme: We are each other's abyss, and each other's stars
