"Some encounters are accidents, but loving you is the most carefully crafted plan of my life."
One glance across the computer lab: her campus card had run out of funds, and when he looked up, both their hearts skipped a beat. Wen Yunjiang had no idea that the gentleman who helped her solve her login problem had already begun plotting their love story in his heart.
What they each thought was an unexpected encounter was, in fact, carefully arranged by both of them. Two proud souls used the same method in the same place to play out a mutual secret crush.
He was a refined, top-of-the-class heartthrob, born into a prominent family yet disciplined and restrained. She was a sensitive, insecure Cinderella who used thorns to protect her fragile heart. When love collided with the gulf of reality, even the sweetest fairy tale came to an abrupt end.
After they broke up, she begged him to take her back. He rejected her with apparent indifference, yet secretly wove a gentle net around her: a tough-love growth plan to ignite her ambition and guide her toward self-fulfillment, an anonymous scholarship to help her pursue her future. Even the figure outside her window as she wept late at night was the product of a longing he restrained until it hurt.
When Wen Yunjiang stood at a lectern in Cambridge, she had finally become someone radiant. What she did not know was that the times they brushed past each other on foreign streets, and the figure always lingering in a library corner, were all carefully designed "chance encounters" by Lu Qinghao.
Years later, they met again. Leaning against the classroom door, his gaze behind his gold-rimmed glasses still burned with intensity. "Professor Wen, this time, let me be the one to pursue you, for the rest of my life."
Theme: The resilience to thrive in adversity
