* Witty, patient secretary x warm yet calculating investor
Rekindled Romance | Love at First Sight
Ji Shuyu first met Yan Wenjing at an airport in Madagascar.
Tall and steady, his refined features edged in gold by the slanting sunlight. His composed air seemed completely at odds with his surroundings.
She kindly returned a lost cufflink and made it clear that it was undamaged.
Then she heard a gentle voice, touched with the faintest hint of amusement: "Meeting you was pretty lucky for it."
The next time they met, Yan Wenjing paid for her meal.
She chased after him to ask for his contact information. His friend teased, "Hey, you, that's way too obvious. He won't fall for it."
In the intoxicating evening breeze, his eyes grew dark and deep as he handed her a card. "If you really want to pay me back, treat me here tomorrow."
Ji Shuyu thought that countless little turns of fate had conspired to let her experience a dazzling romance.
But things that shine too brightly never last long.
Everyone around her warned her that a man from a prominent Beijing family had seen more than enough affection to ever stop for anyone.
"Will there be a future for us?" She clung to him beneath the brilliant lights and asked softly.
For a long time, there was no answer.
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Yan Wenjing noticed that Ji Shuyu was always smiling, as comforting as the afternoon sun.
She was clever and fun.
A man who had always thought highly of himself began, for the first time, to tirelessly make excuses to be around her, just so he could become the prey and wait for her to catch him.
Over the years they spent entangled with each other, he more than once found himself wanting to marry her and bring her home.
Looking back, he realized that the girl who loved to smile had been gone for a long time.
She went to London, and Yan Wenjing felt lonely and desolate. The world around him grew much emptier, like a withered tree in autumn after its leaves had fallen, bare and lifeless.
Later, when a blizzard swept through Beijing, Yan Wenjing made several connections and rushed all the way to France, covered in dust from the journey.
The weather was against him. Rain pattered steadily that day.
A neatly dressed, gentlemanly Frenchman sat with flowers beside him, drinking coffee with the woman Yan Wenjing had never stopped thinking about.
He strode over, pulled out a wicker chair, and sat down beside her. He stared coolly at the Frenchman. "Want to pursue her? Get in line behind me."
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Ji Shuyu's life was quiet and uneventful, but she was always unlucky. She was perpetually one or two points short on exams, rare mishaps always seemed to find her, every road she took ended at a brick wall, and the people she chose never seemed to work out.
Until she gradually made her way into the classrooms of Aldova University, and until Yan Wenjing proposed to her.
It's all right. Life is simple enough, and what matters is doing everything within your power.
(A story about a directionless office worker chasing her dreams, stumbling through love, and becoming her own queen.)
The blurb may be lightly revised later~
Theme: Do everything within your power
