[After years of hardship, may the years grant me all I wish for]
Everyone in their social circle knew that the eldest Miss Ying lacked for nothing.
A prestigious family, beauty, a lovely figure, intelligence and talent...
Everything ordinary girls could only dream of having, she’d possessed from birth.
After more than a decade of smooth sailing, Ying Ning never imagined she would one day fall from a lofty branch into the mud.
But so what if she fell?
Ying Ning thought calmly.
She could take a moment to recover, then climb back up.
But could someone tell her
where the handsome man who caught her so securely had come from?
In the eyes of the students at Siqi, Zhou Yu and Ying Ning were two people who could never have anything to do with each other.
Although they were both well-known figures
one was a transfer student who had always ranked first in his year, did nothing but bury himself in books, and kept to himself;
the other was the school director’s daughter, bright and vivacious, graceful and confident, and used to being the center of attention.
They were in different grades,
from vastly different backgrounds, and practically strangers...
So no one would ever have linked them together.
But no one knew.
They had spent one afternoon after another hiding in the school’s abandoned clock tower.
Sunlight slanted through the window, tracing a warm rim of light along her profile.
Fine dust floated in the air, brushing past the black braided hair tie around her wrist and her thick, soft hair.
At the sound, the girl looked up.
She saw the shadows of the Roman numerals and hands of the giant clock on the wall, falling across the boy’s clean white shirt.
Ying Ning would always regret going to Siqi.
More than once, she’d thought:
If only nothing unexpected had happened, she could have gone to a better high school.
But Zhou Yu had been grateful again and again that Ying Ning had come to Siqi.
She was the most precious gift his lifetime of good fortune had earned him. He had crossed the mountains of a poor village, walked the dusty roads, and braved the thorns to receive her as a reward from the years.
#Healing story#
Slow burn, told out of order. Half school life, half city life.
Heaven’s favored girl × elegant up-and-comer
One-on-one romance / first love for both / happy ending
[Notes]
-The male lead is poor while in school, and relies on the heroine’s family to fund his education. But he is strong-willed and steadfast as bamboo and cypress: though poor, he has lofty ambitions.
-The heroine’s family is genuinely wealthy. They don’t go bankrupt, and she isn’t a fallen heiress. The opening’s fall from the branch has another explanation, and even after the male lead succeeds, the heroine is still richer than he is.
-He has a secret crush on her.
Theme: Those who persevere will be rewarded
