The Wind Favors Me

Before Jin Xi turned sixteen, she had always been the cherished little princess of the Jin family. Her parents doted on her, and her grandfather adored her. She was the Jin family's only child, but had been frail and delicate since childhood. Everyone in the family treasured her, doing everything they could to shower her with love. In fact, on her twelfth birthday, she casually pointed at Shen Yan Feng and joked, "I want him." Just because of that, Old Master Jin personally went to the Shen family and arranged a marriage between the Shen and Jin families for her. It became a nightmare for Shen Yan Feng and Jin Xi for years to come. Shen Yan Feng deeply resented his elders for forcing the arrangement on him, while Jin Xi felt awkward and guilty. Throughout the four years from age twelve to sixteen, the thing Shen Yan Feng and Jin Xi said to each other most often was: Shen Yan Feng: "I'd rather die than marry you." Jin Xi: "I wouldn't marry you either!" They would part on bad terms, leaving everyone else dumbfounded. Everyone thought the engagement between the Jin family's little princess and the Shen family's young master would eventually be called off. - At sixteen, Jin Xi fell from her pedestal overnight, going from the little princess of the capital's foremost family to the fake heiress who had been switched at birth in a melodramatic drama. She lost the halo of her family background in a single day and became the target of mockery and gossip, but she could bear all that. Even when her birth parents wanted her to leave the capital and return to them, Jin Xi hesitated only briefly before nodding. On the day she left the capital, the Jin family and Jin Xi's friends came to see her off. Shen Yan Feng stood silently outside the crowd. Jin Xi happened to look up and see him. After a moment's hesitation, she still walked over to him. "Congratulations. Now you really don't have to marry me." The sixteen-year-old boy's eyes turned red. - Years later, Jin Xi became a little-known violinist in the Western classical music scene. Shen Yan Feng lived up to everyone's expectations, inheriting the Shen family business and surpassing his predecessor as a promising young man. Their reunion was purely by chance. At the time, rumors were spreading like wildfire in their circle that he was about to get engaged to the Jin family's real heiress. Jin Xi had no desire to get involved with someone from her past, but he kept pursuing her. Unable to keep dodging him, Jin Xi seized an opportunity to lay everything out. In the clear moonlight, the man's deep gaze rested on her. "You don't want me anymore?" Jin Xi lowered her eyes, smiling faintly. "You're too expensive now. I can't afford you." Before she had even finished speaking, a warm, dry palm gently covered her eyes. At the same moment, a cool kiss landed beside her ear, fleeting as a passing breeze, light as a dragonfly touching water. "But I insist on giving myself to you." *This is not a traditional switched-at-birth heiress story. The focus isn't on which girl is the real heiress; both girls are good people. *Inspired by the 2000 version of Autumn in My Heart. Synopsis written: 2021.12.17 Synopsis posted: 2022.04.16 Please add it to your to-read list~ O(∩_∩)O~ Theme: No matter how strong the wind blows, never give up on life.