An Equal Relationship

● Complete ● 1v1, happy ending, rekindled romance ● Readers who value research and strict attention to detail, please read with caution. The author is not an expert. ● The protagonist is flawed, and the plot is melodramatic, melodramatic, melodramatic. ● Some plot details were revised for objective reasons. Please refer to the version on Jinjiang for the definitive text. Blurb: Qin Yue grew up in an orphanage. As soon as she graduated from high school, she went to work as a welder at a nearby factory. She worked over fourteen hours a day and still earned next to nothing. Most of her wages went back to the orphanage, and what little remained was only enough to pay for a tiny room and meals that barely kept her going. As one of her coworkers put it, someone like her had a worse life than the boss’s two dogs. But Qin Yue, whose life was worse than a dog’s, had a secret: Shen Jianqing, a professor at a prestigious university with countless published papers and outstanding research achievements, was her lover. The day Qin Yue was promoted to team leader, she invited a few coworkers out for a meal. She picked a spot on the commercial street next to the university where Shen Jianqing taught. The grand gates stood right before them. Her coworkers gazed at them enviously, then said sourly, “Anyone who gets into a place like this must be something special, right?” “Not someone from our world, anyway. Who cares whether she’s special or not? Right, Team Leader?” someone beside her asked, bumping Qin Yue’s shoulder. Qin Yue said nothing. Her calm gaze passed through the shifting shadows of the trees and settled on the bright windows at the south end of the third-floor teaching building. She sipped her cheap beer, one mouthful at a time. After the meal, her coworkers left together. Qin Yue leaned against a lamppost and stayed there, unmoving. Only when the woman behind the glass finally stepped down from the lectern and disappeared from view did Qin Yue take out her phone and send a WeChat message: I’m at the south gate of your university. Come out. #Later, I stepped into the spotlight and stood shoulder to shoulder with you as your equal# Theme: Grow through adversity, and be grateful in times of ease.