Full Circle

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Youthful school romance, mutual pining and healing, with a warm ensemble cast

[1]

The year Cen Xi met Zhou Chengjue, he was a handsome, lazy young man from a prominent family, always at the top of his science classes and surrounded by countless girls at school. He was every bit the favored child of heaven, except that his Chinese grades were nothing to brag about.

At the time, Cen Xi had excellent grades but came from a poor family, and had to earn her own tuition.

That summer, Zhou Chengjue was forced to go downstairs and open the door for the new tutor. "I'm getting in through a competition recommendation. Turn right when you leave, and don't let the door hit you. I can't write essays, and no one can do anything about it."

The next moment, his deskmate Cen Xi, who had unexpectedly landed a tutoring job, knocked on the Zhou family's door.

For a long time afterward, the two studied and lived side by side.

She got a glimpse of a world she'd never been part of, and of Zhou Chengjue, whom she could only sneak glances at.

Later, she ran into him by the study. The boy said coldly, "I hate all that flowery language."

That same day, Cen Xi quit her tutoring job and stopped looking at him with such careful, furtive glances.

[2]

When they meet again at university, the boy is still full of confidence and impossibly out of reach.

Cen Xi means to keep her distance, but with the charity program in danger of being canceled, she has no choice but to swallow her pride and invite him to take part.

After the interview, the favored child of heaven turns red-eyed and grabs her wrist in front of everyone. "I've been looking for you for so long."

Zhou Chengjue says self-deprecatingly, "I was halfway through learning to write a love letter, and then my little teacher ran away."

Cen Xi's nose tingles. "I only know how to write in flowery language. I can't teach you."

He presses closer. "That's exactly what I like."

"We took a long way around, but luckily you're still here. You never really went far."

(The leads were classmates, and the male lead is one year older.)

Unrequited love x putting on a front

Resilient little underdog x doting, lovesick boy

At first, his tough act:

In public: We're just ordinary deskmates. Are we even close?

In private: This is the only deskmate I've got. Touch her and see what happens.

Later, his tough act:

In front of his friends: This little scratch doesn't count as an injury.

In front of Cen Xi: This little injury... I might die if my girlfriend doesn't feel sorry for me.

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Blurb:

1.

Zhao Jiashi thought that marrying a fellow tower controller would be better than marrying a stranger. She never imagined that he would not only have an inappropriate relationship with a colleague, but also deliberately obstruct her path to permanent employment and force her to quit and become a housewife.

She canceled the engagement and reported him in one fell swoop.

When confronted with the report, her senior colleague said she was his fiancee and that their relationship troubles were just a lovers' quarrel. Zhao Jiashi only wanted to put some distance between them, so she made up a story about having another person she planned to marry.

When her supervisor pressed her for details, the name of the older brother she'd barely seen in years flashed through her mind: "Lu Shiwen."

Her supervisor and colleagues exchanged glances, trying not to laugh.

If she was going to make something up, she could at least make it believable. Who in the civil aviation industry hadn't heard of Lu Shiwen?

The head of Tianji Aviation, a former fighter pilot and a walking first-class merit citation. He had fame, fortune, and a mysterious background. No one could possibly connect him to Zhao Jiashi, a humble trainee tower controller.

Who could have guessed that the big shot himself would appear before them the very next moment? Everyone stared in shock, then turned to Zhao Jiashi, who was just as stunned, wondering how she'd get out of this.

Her supervisor hurried over respectfully. "Mr. Lu, why didn't you come in and have a seat? We haven't been very good hosts."

But the man only looked at Zhao Jiashi and said casually, "I came to pick her up. She told me to wait outside and not come in. If she tells me to go east, how could I dare go west? In our family, I take my orders from her."

Zhao Jiashi: "...?"

Everyone else: "!!!"

2.

Before he found out his younger sister Zhao Jiashi was about to marry someone else, Lu Shiwen was in Australia, dominating the civil aviation market, with a prestigious position and no plans to return to China.

The marriage arrangement was unavoidable, and Zhao Jiashi didn't want many people to know about it. She didn't even mention it to Lu Shiwen.

But the other family's elders had drawn up a harsh prenuptial agreement, and it somehow reached him all the way across the ocean.

"They really think they're some kind of prestigious family." Lu Shiwen read the agreement with a cold expression, then immediately booked a flight home.

Not long after, Zhao Jiashi received another unfair prenuptial agreement.

Only this time, every clause favored the woman.

The agreement was from Lu Shiwen, and the person she was to marry was, in fact, Lu Shiwen himself.

"For two years. After that, we'll go our separate ways and stay out of each other's business."

But as the deadline approached, Lu Shiwen had already given her everything he'd promised, and more. The only thing he couldn't do was stay out of her business.

He interfered in everything: her clothes, food, housing, travel, and every little detail of her life. He fussed over her constantly.

He even suggested that she interfere more in his life too. For instance, if he got home a second late, she could call to check up on him and interrogate him.

Tips:

* Marriage first, love later

* Air traffic controller x pilot and airline CEO

* Male lead pursues first; they start as brother and sister, then become each other's darling. No blood relation.

Theme: A young person's youth is always dazzling