Hopelessly in Love with Her

[Second Male Lead Chases His Wife to the Crematorium, Male Lead Has a Humble Crush on Her in the Early Stages, They Both Make Their Way to Each Other in the Later Stages, the Female Lead's Hearing Will Also Be Cured, Both Are Each Other's First Love]

[1]

Xu Jiao moves back to Yancheng from Feng City and meets again Shen Yujin, the childhood friend she used to be very close to.

The young man is handsome and refined, an excellent student, and always caring toward her.

It is easy to fall for him.

The two make a pact to get into the best university in the capital together. Their notes, each bearing the name of the same university, are posted side by side at the back of the classroom.

Almost the whole school thinks they are witnessing a romance between two top students.

But in the four or five years they were out of touch, a girl who spent every day with Shen Yujin came into his life, and he was just as caring and attentive toward her.

At the school anniversary gala, a stage light suddenly falls. In the darkness and confusion, Xu Jiao is knocked down, her palm pressed into broken glass, and the hearing aid on her ear knocked off.

With tears blurring her vision from the pain, she sees Shen Yujin stride up from below the stage.

He carries away the girl who fell at the same time.

[2]

On the day Xu Jiao moves to Yancheng, she hears that the boy living across from her is a troublemaker who is going nowhere, and that she should stay away from him.

A long stretch of road between school and her home is under construction. Every night after evening study, the road is pitch-black and deserted.

It is the rebellious boy everyone says is best left alone

who walks with her through those three hundred-plus days of senior year.

At their classmates' reunion on the night after the college entrance exam, they pass that way together for the last time.

She says softly, "A boy confessed to me while we were singing today."

The summer night breeze carries a heat that refuses to disperse. Chen Sui clenches his fingers until his knuckles turn white, his lips pressed tight as he says nothing.

Anyone else has more right to her than he does.

Then the girl gazes at him with her limpid eyes, her voice tinged with hurt and displeasure as she asks:

"So when are you planning to confess to me?"

[3]

At the opening ceremony for first-year students at Peking University, Xu Jiao takes the stage to speak as an outstanding graduate of the medical school.

The new students below gossip excitedly:

"I heard her first love only went to a second-tier university and doesn't have much money. I wonder if they broke up."

"They must have. It's been seven or eight years..."

The university president, seated in the front row, coughs twice to stop the students' impolite remarks.

Then he turns an apologetic look toward the exceptionally elegant man beside him, dressed in a sharp suit.

"Mr. Chen, the students don't know any better. Please don't take offense."

"It's fine." The man keeps the corners of his lips curved, his gaze fixed on the speaker onstage.

Only after Xu Jiao finishes speaking and leaves the stage, and the thunderous applause dies down, does Chen Sui turn around. Smiling still in his dark eyes, he says to the girls:

"My wife and I haven't broken up."

Students in the back row: "?!!!!"

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At the end of August, the asphalt road is scorched by the blazing sun.

Cen Ying goes to register at her new school with a face bruised purple from a fall, so battered that her original features are unrecognizable.

At the school gate, a black Bugatti supercar is flashy and eye-catching, prompting a group of girls to whisper excitedly.

Cen Ying glances over.

Her eyes meet those of a boy surrounded by people, his face brazen and carefree.

Beside him, a girl rises onto her toes to light his cigarette with eager deference.

A second later, Cen Ying looks away and keeps walking.

Beside her, Zhou Siyan pulls her suitcase and tells her gently,

"They're all rich kids who don't apply themselves. Especially Cha Jin, the one leading them. He's the most reckless and rotten of the lot. Yingying, don't be like those other girls and let his face bewitch you."

Thinking of that brief glance, Cen Ying feels no fondness for him.

She nods lightly, her voice soft and sweet: "I know, Brother Siyan."

-

In the sports car, a few boys have also noticed the two of them.

They all know Pei Chi and Zhou Siyan don't get along, and none of them bothers to hold back.

"Hey, Zhou Siyan even wiped the sweat off that girl's face. Are they dating or something?"

"Haha, his taste is bizarre, liking a disfigured face like that."

Amid the laughter, no one notices

Pei Chi's jaw tighten. Ash falls from the cigarette between his fingers, one clump after another, but he doesn't move at all.

His dark eyes remain fixed on that slender figure, almost out of sight.

The emotions repressed in his gaze surge.

-

Half a semester later, Cen Ying's injuries have healed.

Her original, stunningly beautiful face is revealed.

Passing the classroom doorway, she hears a group of boys chatting and laughing.

"Cen Ying is so beautiful now, and she's Zhou Siyan's childhood sweetheart. Chi, if you win her over, Zhou Siyan will be furious."

Cen Ying stops in her tracks.

The next day, she "confesses" to Pei Chi and becomes his girlfriend.

The girls are jealous and confused.

Who doesn't know Pei Chi has always hated innocent, pure girls?

And Cen Ying's face is pure down to the bone.

"Maybe he's just trying something different, playing around."

Everyone, Cen Ying included, thinks Pei Chi is acting on a whim.

But later, Pei Chi nearly loses half his life for Cen Ying,

only for the girl to dump him without the slightest hesitation.

-

So years later, when they unexpectedly meet again, everyone waits to see how Pei Chi will take his revenge.

After all, Pei Chi has now become the true head of the Pei family.

He is ruthless and cold-hearted in business, and anyone who crosses him comes to a bad end.

Looking at the man's icy, dark eyes, Cen Ying thinks the same thing.

But that very night, when she gets home, Pei Chi pins her against the wall and pulls her tightly into his arms. His breath is scorching. He grits his teeth, but his voice is so hoarse it almost trembles.

"Didn't you say you were using me? I'm more capable now than I was before. Whatever you want, you can use me to get it."

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.