Relying on his family's wealth and status, Lin Sui'an forced Zuo Wen, a poor student with excellent grades and the campus heartthrob, to be his boyfriend.
One was a brilliant young man in the top ten of the entire school, the other a pretty airhead with nothing but good looks. No one thought they were a good match.
Lin Sui'an knew it, and so did Zuo Wen.
But so what? There was nothing Young Master Lin couldn't get if he wanted it.
The more unwilling Zuo Wen was, the more Lin Sui'an enjoyed himself.
He made Zuo Wen wear the little hair tie Lin Sui'an used to tie up his hair, took his seat in electives, and scribbled all over his clean textbooks.
Zuo Wen had a good temper and never openly snapped at him.
He would just smile faintly, wear the hair tie every day as Lin Sui'an asked, and leave the bread, biscuits, and milk Lin Sui'an wanted in his seat before their elective classes.
That summer after high school graduation, the Lin family went bankrupt.
His father abandoned him and his mother, fleeing abroad in the middle of the night. Their villa was seized, and Lin Sui'an went from a pampered young master high in the clouds to a penniless drifter with nowhere to go.
After the college entrance exams, Lin Sui'an seemed to vanish from the sight of everyone in Class Ten, Grade Twelve.
No one knew where he was, which university he had applied to, or what he was doing now.
*
Lin Sui'an never went to Florence to study sculpture, as he had dreamed of since childhood.
He attended an ordinary university, then took an ordinary, demanding job after graduation.
The first eighteen years of his life felt like an expired lottery ticket promising sudden riches. As time passed, they grew as distant as a TV show whose plot you know but whose actual experience you can't remember.
His life should have gone on, placid as an old well, until his mother fainted and was taken to the hospital.
Lin Sui'an needed money, more than he ever had before.
Just when he needed money most, he saw the new tech tycoon who had burst onto the scene in the financial news.
*
Zuo Wen was a legendary alumnus of S University.
Despite his humble background, he earned his first fortune through competitions as soon as he started his first year. Within a few years of graduating, he had become one of S City's most sought-after rising stars.
What's more, he was handsome, refined, and scrupulously discreet, turning away every socialite and heiress who approached him.
Many people were curious about his standards for a partner. Some subordinates thought that though the CEO seemed gentle, he was actually cold and impossibly strict. Even for money, it would be hard to find someone truly willing to spend their life with a block of marble.
Until one day, in the middle of a meeting, Zuo Wen received a phone call. His eyes suddenly reddened, and he rushed out the door as if he were going to see someone.
*The cool, gentle top x the spoiled, naive bottom
Thesis: Lovers will find their way to each other in the end.