Cherished Love

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[Pure-hearted, hardworking heroine VS steady, cool-headed hero]

Zhou Yimo has had a run of terrible luck lately. She's the star editor at a publishing house, but someone else got the promotion she deserved. She was mistaken for a homewrecker, and then set up on a melodramatic blind date with her neighbor's grandson!

Desperate to turn her luck around, she indulges in a little superstition and visits the biggest temple in town to pray. Sincerely and earnestly, she murmurs, “Buddha, please bless me with success and wealth, and make sure my blind date has something come up so he can't make it.”

She rises and turns around, only to see a man standing ramrod straight. He wears a simple white shirt, with an apparently expensive suit jacket draped casually over his arm, and a string of antique-style Buddhist beads around his wrist. A cool aura surrounds his refined presence. One look at his profile, and she's smitten.

The moment Fu Xiangyan opens his eyes, he sees the woman beside him drop to her knees with a thump and knock her head three times. He can just make out her quiet muttering.

“Buddha, please pass a message to the Matchmaker: if a man and woman run into each other twice, it's fate. Please tie our red strings into a knot that can never come undone.”

On the day of the blind date, Zhou Yimo deliberately puts on the makeup of a flashy young girl, hoping to put her date off. But when she sits down across from him, she is shocked.

“Weren't you the one at the temple...”

Fu Xiangyan gives her a polite smile and replies with cool detachment, “Yes. I'm the one you asked the Matchmaker to tie to you forever.”

Mortified, Zhou Yimo tries to run. The man grabs her wrist and pointedly reminds her, “Does what you said at the temple still count?”

Zhou Yimo falls silent, her eyes fixed ahead.

His gaze is no longer as cold as it was that day. There's a hint of tenderness and earnestness in it. “Marry me.”

Wanting to marry you wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. It was a plan I've had for a long time.

﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌Next up: Trapped in the Dark Night﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌

Bai Weixin and Si Xu first meet in a wilderness cave in a foreign country. Both have been separated from their companions and lost in an uninhabited forest.

The man across from her wears an expensive suit and looks untouchable. For some reason, he also seems strangely familiar.

“Hey, has anyone ever told you that you look like someone?”

Si Xu raises an eyebrow. “Who?”

“My benefactor!” Bai Weixin excitedly steps forward and grabs him. “Could you, my benefactor, lead me out of the jungle?”

“If your benefactor could find his way out of this forest, he wouldn't be stuck suffering in a cave with you.”

Only later does Bai Weixin discover who the man in the cave is: the head of the Si family in Hong Kong. He's said to be decisive, dangerous, and mysterious, respected by everyone in their circle. No one dares cross him.

Even as a well-known heiress and socialite in the capital, she wouldn't dare provoke him. But somehow, the trending topic has linked the two of them.

#Is the head of Hong Kong's Si family dating? Is his girlfriend Bai Weixin, a little-known actress? #

At an event they both attend, a reporter boldly asks Bai Weixin a question.

“Bai Weixin, there are rumors that you're dating Mr. Si. Is it true?”

Bai Weixin turns to look at Si Xu, who seems completely unconcerned, and feels inexplicably annoyed.

“Mr. Si is right there. Ask him if you want to know.”

Bai Weixin walks away. She doesn't know what Si Xu says, and whatever it is has nothing to do with her. After all, they're just strangers who happened to meet. But just before she gets into the car, a strong hand suddenly grabs her wrist. She turns and meets the man's faintly helpless gaze.

“Looks like Miss Bai took advantage of me in that cave and now wants to pretend it never happened.”

Bai Weixin's memory is whisked back to the cave. All she can think about is how the two of them, cold and hungry, hugged each other and shared a single piece of candy.

Theme: Love means having the courage to pursue it