Tentatively scheduled to start serializing in November
#LongPlannedScheme
#JadeDynasty
Lin An met Zhou Shaowen when she was studying in New York.
Her first impression of him was that he was serious, reserved, and low-key.
She always thought he was an excellent student who had made it on his own. She admired him and liked him a little, and would use questions about her studies as an excuse to get closer to him.
But when graduation came, she didn't make a move. She simply left without a word.
Years later, in the first year after taking over her family's jade business, she sent an employee to meet with Hong Kong's Zhou Jewelry about a partnership.
The other party shot back, "You're not qualified yet. Have your boss, Ms. Lin, come negotiate in person."
She wanted to see who had the nerve to talk like that.
The meeting room door opened. Zhou Shaowen was seated at the head of the table. In that instant, only one thought crossed her mind: run.
He cornered her in the hallway, anger held back for three years burning in his eyes. "Why did you run?"
Lin An's brain short-circuited. "I was afraid you'd ask me for a loan."
Zhou Shaowen: "..."
He had gone to great lengths to get close to Lin An, even making all his rich second-generation friends keep his identity a secret, all so he could maintain the image of an "ordinary guy who works hard and strives to get ahead" in front of her. Then those friends turned around and told her:
"Zhou Shaowen? His family is pretty poor."
He was poor?
The heir to Hong Kong's Zhou Jewelry was poor?
Well, a villain may scheme to the hilt, but that's no match for a fool's stroke of inspiration.
Lin An burst out laughing. "Zhou Shaowen, so all these years you've been acting out a 'poor boy falls for a rich girl' story with me?"
He grabbed her by the waist.
"Acting?"
"I've been waiting for you to make the first move and chase me."
Bonus scene:
The guys: "We really thought he didn't want his identity exposed, so we kept it completely under wraps for him!"
Lin An: "...So you told me he was poor?"
Zhou Shaowen (smiling): "Tomorrow, I'm blocking every one of you."
#JadeDynastyXLuxuryJewelryHouse
#TheFirst40000WordsAreAboutStudyingAbroad
#NotAHongKongStyleNovel, lighthearted overall
Theme: Women should compete with men for jobs, flip the table, and stand up to them.
