In the year 2000, seventeen-year-old Chu Youyou died.
When she woke up again, she was wearing a rainbow sweater, a low-rise denim skirt, and slouchy socks, clutching a Xiaolingtong phone as she stood out of place on an unfamiliar street.
The sun was glaring, and Chu Youyou's phone had no signal, so she borrowed a passerby's phone.
Staring at the mobile phone with no buttons, Chu Youyou fell silent...
She was the trendiest Audition girl in school! How could there be a 3C gadget she didn't know how to use?
Then Chu Youyou saw the date on the screen:
It was fifteen years later?!
The kind passerby helped her call the older boy next door.
Chu Youyou carefully held the phone as she heard his low voice say, "Hello."
"Brother Qingran, it's Youyou..." She was only this obedient around Ji Qingran.
Half an hour later, a Cullinan pulled up in front of Chu Youyou.
A dignified man, both familiar and strange, stepped out of the car.
"Brother Qingran," Chu Youyou said with a sigh of relief, her eyes wide as she looked the man over. "You're thirty-five, but you don't look old at all!"
The man was silent for a long while before finally saying, "Chu Youyou, I'm Ji Qingyu."
Chu Youyou: ???
The man standing before her was Ji Qingran's younger brother, her childhood rival and sworn enemy, Ji Qingyu?!
Chu Youyou stopped acting sweet and lifted her chin arrogantly. She was a full three years older than him. "Little Feather, hey, call me Big Sis."
But Ji Qingyu's eyes reddened. His throat was dry, and he couldn't say a word.
Everyone in the city knew that the young masters of the wealthy Ji family had been kidnapped as children and rescued by a little orphan girl.
The Ji family wanted to adopt her, but the ungrateful child couldn't appreciate fine things. Unable to handle life among the wealthy, she ran back to the orphanage in the middle of the night.
Only Ji Qingran and Ji Qingyu knew the real reason.
The ones who helped her "escape" were the Ji brothers themselves.
Ji Qingran: "Youyou could never be my sister."
Ji Qingyu: "I don't have a sister named Chu Youyou!"
Later, the little orphan girl died in an accident.
Fifteen years later, the brothers had become the new heads of the Ji family, but they were still single, with not even a rumored girlfriend in sight.
But from that day on, a charming young girl appeared by the Ji brothers' side.
She was very pretty, but her fashion sense was... very retro, very Y2K.
With colorful translucent hair clips in her hair, playing with a virtual pet and humming old SHE songs on her way home from cram school, she'd carry a backpack covered in dolls to ask the executive director and CEO to play Dance Dance Revolution with her?
The two heads of the Ji family spoiled the girl rotten.
Ji Qingran would abruptly end a meeting just to personally sign for the limited-edition Fahrenheit photo book he'd tracked down for her.
On the day of her college entrance exams, Ji Qingyu rented out a venue for her to attend a Cindy Wang concert.
And every day, Chu Youyou worried over whether to keep acting sweet in front of Brother Qingran or teach her disobedient brat of a younger brother a proper lesson.
One-on-one. Youyou's love interest is Ji Qingyu. Age gap. Includes a brothers-at-odds love triangle.
A story written to indulge my personal tastes.
Theme: Sincerity for sincerity