The Weather Isn't Clear

1

On the day she started school,

she rounded a corner with a stack of reports in her arms and collided with someone coming the other way.

The reports scattered. As she crouched to pick them up, she heard a crisp, impatient voice above her say, “Watch where you're going.”

Against the light, she saw a face with a high brow and slightly upturned eyes.

He was aloof and proud, as if no one was worthy of his notice.

That was Gu Zhixing: a genius, sharp-tongued, cold, and demanding, blessed with a face so beautiful people would gladly fly into the fire for him.

She was no exception.

She loved Gu Zhixing for five years.

She changed herself, striving to become beautiful and get good grades, all because of one offhand remark from Gu Zhixing that he liked girls who looked good and did well in school.

Only when she brought him the notice that she had been recommended for postgraduate study and saw the stunning campus belle beside him did she realize all her efforts had been in vain.

Watching their perfectly matched backs as they walked away, she suddenly felt exhausted.

Gu Zhixing, this time I don't want to keep chasing after you.

2

Years later, Gu Zhixing had long since taken off his white coat and taken over the Gu Group.

She had stayed in the industry, progressing from an ordinary girl whose name no one remembered to someone people took notice of.

In her second year back at the research institute, she ran into Gu Zhixing at an industry conference, where he was attending as an investor.

His black suit made his aloof, untouchable air even more pronounced, and his presence was stronger than before.

The pride between his brows had been honed by power into a thin blade; even one glance from him was enough to make people tremble.

He saw her. His lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something.

Just then, someone beside her casually draped an arm over her shoulder.

The man was handsome, and his familiar, affectionate manner toward her made their relationship obvious to anyone who saw them.

Gu Zhixing's expression changed in an instant.

His gaze shifted from that hand to Xia Mo's face, as cold as a blade.

He had a drink that night and left early.

She thought they would never meet again, but just as she came out of the conference hall, a pair of arms pulled her into an embrace and pinned her back against the cold wall.

The smell of alcohol mingled with ragged, repressed breaths as he leaned down and kissed her, almost biting her with the force of it.

Then she heard his voice, hoarse as sandpaper scraping his throat.

“What am I to you, then?”

“Didn't you deliberately leave your diary behind when you walked away, just so I'd know how you felt?”

“I waited for you for five years.”

“What makes that man worthy of you?”

Reading guide:

1. Both leads are pure.

2. Volume One is the campus arc; Volume Two is the workplace arc.

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Theme: Don't change yourself for someone else. Believe that you deserve to be loved.