[Spoiled heiress × mature, dependable business executive | Rekindled love | He chases her after losing her | Eight-year age gap]
When Jian Xinyan looks back on her girlhood, there's only one person who comes to mind: Wei Yufan.
To everyone else, he's President Wei, her father's most capable business partner. He's also her uncle, and the secret crush she can never speak of.
On the day she graduates, she can't hold back and confesses her feelings to him. He only looks up at her coolly and says in an utterly calm voice, "I'm sorry. I'm not planning to date anyone right now."
So for the next four years, even when she's thrown out of her student apartment on New Year's Eve and walks more than ten kilometers through heavy snow, she never calls him once.
She never imagined she'd reunite with him this way. After just one meal upon returning to the country, her father forces her into Wei Yufan's firm.
In the eyes of his employees, President Wei is humorless and exceptionally demanding at work. He pushes himself harder than anyone else.
Then one day, the employee group chat explodes: "I saw President Wei chatting with the new girl downstairs, and he even drove her to lunch himself."
Everyone: "? Is that for real? Is the old tree finally blooming?"
Then something even more astonishing happens. President Wei waves a hand and says, "I'm turning down this contract. They bullied someone on my team. They must be tired of living."
Everyone: "President Wei is so bold. That's a huge contract, and he's just turning it down for some young woman."
Wei Yufan knows that a boundary of status has always stood between him and Jian Xinyan. So he does his best to hold back, afraid to take even one step too far.
Only when Jian Xinyan looks at him with red eyes and says, "You don't like me at all. You were just using me," does he feel a deep stab of pain in his heart.
After Jian Xinyan leaves without a word, he frantically goes to find her, only to be coldly turned away at the door.
At a meeting with a client, he watches the young woman he once knew in a sharp business suit and mature makeup, chatting and laughing with those around her as if he doesn't even exist.
Suddenly, it all feels pointless. He pushes the contract aside and says, "Go ahead and sign it. I'm out."
During a break, he grabs Jian Xinyan by the wrist and pulls her into the corridor. He corners her, moving closer and closer, yet his voice is full of pleading. "I can give up the money and the contract. Will you come back to me?"
Theme: Even from a position of power, one should keep striving.
