Ruan Li: Just go through the motions and keep my job.
He Kuang: What motions? Let's just get married.
Older woman-younger man romance | Workplace romance | He falls first
Ruan Li's life philosophy is to calculate everything down to the last detail. She made her way from a small third-tier city to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, then stayed in Hong Kong to work in publishing on her own. Every expense is laid out clearly in her budget. She thought the biggest risk in her life would be a typo in a book.
Until He Kuang came along.
The second son of the He family, 187 centimeters tall, three years younger than her, and so sharp-tongued she'd like to throw him out of business class and back into economy. Yet he was the one who dragged her into business class, the one who rejected an arranged marriage in front of his family, and the one who held her in his apartment at dawn, saying, "Just let me hold you for a little while. Please."
He asked her what it felt like to be in love. She didn't dare answer. Because she was afraid she already knew, and just didn't dare do the math.
From Repulse Bay to Yau Ma Tei, the distance is more than half of Hong Kong. But every time, he has his driver take her home.
Clearheaded editor × carefree rich second-generation heir / Three-year age gap / Set in Hong Kong / Everyday life in a wealthy family / He falls first, she realizes it later
Theme: Ruan Li has spent her whole life calculating costs and benefits. She thought love was another risk that could be quantified. But what He Kuang teaches her isn't "how to date," but "some people don't need you to calculate anything. He's already got you covered." A truly intimate relationship isn't a profitable transaction. It's finally allowing yourself not to carry everything alone.
