The sea was rough and the waves high that year when she pulled a drowning boy from the water. Years later, when they meet again, he approaches her with a lifetime of careful calculations behind him and says it is only to repay a debt of gratitude.
Xiao Yichen, CEO of Lingfeng Capital, is cool and aloof on the outside, a genius with an exceptionally high IQ. He entered an Ivy League university at fifteen and is the sole heir to a top publicly listed company.
Outsiders see only his glamorous life. No one sees the hardship he endured.
When he fell into the sea at thirteen, Zhong Zhen risked her life to pull him from the churning water. Seven years later, they meet again. Realizing that the boss before her, nearly a head taller than her, is the boy from back then, she is both surprised and delighted.
Zhong Zhen thinks he likes her too, until she accidentally hears him say calmly to his grandfather over the phone, "It was only to repay a debt of gratitude."
She doesn't have a hysterical argument with him. Instead, she calmly hands in her resignation and walks away.
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After Zhong Zhen leaves, her workstation stays empty, and the pothos on her desk soon withers. He has someone water it, and it comes back to life, but he still turns his eyes away whenever he looks at it.
At last, his friend can't hold back any longer. "You weren't repaying a debt. You drove her away."
Not long afterward, he goes to the beach where it all happened and retraces the path Zhong Zhen took the day she saved him. Only then does he realize that the waves were so high that day she couldn't swim at all. She could barely reach him because she was tall, and she nearly drowned herself.
The "debt of gratitude" he has remembered for seven years was bought with her life.
-The world is vast. You and I are only temporarily lost, but one day we will meet again.
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