A new official arrived in Guyang. A top graduate from a prestigious university, handsome and accomplished, he was said to have drawn three rings of onlookers around him.
He Zhaodi told Fu Yixin everything she’d heard.
She tugged at Fu Yixin’s hand. “Sister, are you listening?”
Fu Yixin turned her head and nodded toward a spot in the distance. “I am. Look, isn’t he coming over?”
She leaped down from the half-height wall and waved for He Zhaodi to go home first.
After a few exchanges, the two were already at each other’s throats.
Fu Yixin nudged her tongue against her cheek, clasped her lollipop in her hand, and tilted her head to look at him. Chu Weisi’s fine gold-rimmed glasses reflected the dazzling sunlight.
He really did look like a gentlemanly scoundrel.
Her foxlike eyes brimmed with disdain. “So what? Did you come here as a village official to ask why I’m leading someone else’s good kid astray too?”
“Of course not.”
“Fancy seeing you again. I’d like to be friends.”
“?”
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The two met again at a society gala.
Only then did Fu Yixin realize that he was the notorious rebellious Second Young Master Chu everyone talked about.
Chu Weisi no longer wore glasses. His slightly narrowed eyes were fixed on her, sharp and alluring.
Fu Yixin’s tongue was as sharp as ever. “What happened to bringing peace to the world for generations to come?”
“Let’s not talk about that today.”
“Then what should we talk about?”
He casually raised his hand and held her slender wrist, his gesture leaving no room for refusal. “You.”
Fu Yixin suddenly understood. He hadn’t been asleep on the night they parted in Guyang County.
He remembered that kiss.
#Written 2023.9.20#
#College graduate village official x atypical bad girl in self-imposed exile | Capital elite x marginalized nobody#
Theme: Love gives people boundless courage
