A Clichéd Rich-Family Romance

In Ji Jue's eighteen years of life, the closest he ever came to the light was at the graduation ball, when Chang Nian cut through the crowd and took his hand, decisive and resolute.

After that night, Chang Nian's gaze became Ji Jue's only light.

Though he was just an unremarkable companion hired to study alongside Chang Nian, he kept chasing his light, studying hard and struggling to make a life for himself.

He even willingly became Chang Nian's secret lover, enduring the looks from Chang Nian's "friends," picking him up after he'd had enough fun, and going to bed with him when he was drunk.

Always at his beck and call, dismissed whenever he was no longer wanted.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye. In the fourth year, Chang Nian got engaged to the eldest daughter of the well-matched Zhen family.

Watching the golden couple on television, Ji Jue knew he could no longer keep holding Chang Nian back.

He silently said goodbye to the man he had loved for three years, then set off alone to study abroad.

After saying goodbye to the eldest daughter of the Zhen family, Chang Nian unexpectedly received a message from the butler: Mr. Ji has left.

Chang Nian thought Ji Jue was throwing a tantrum and didn't pay it much mind.

After all, there was no way Ji Jue could escape his grasp, no matter where he went, he thought as he looked at Ji Jue's flight details.

Not long afterward, Chang Nian received the airline's tragic news. The flight number of the crashed plane looked familiar.

Only then did Chang Nian belatedly realize that the two words the other person had just said were "my condolences."

Chang Nian refused to believe it and went in person to where the plane had crashed, but all he found was a ring.

It was the Christmas gift he'd casually given Ji Jue to cheer him up.

The eldest young master of the Chang family had gone mad. Some said he was looking for someone. Others said the person he was looking for had been dead for years.

But no one dared ask him about it to his face. Everyone knew that anything to do with that person was a taboo the eldest young master of the Chang family would not tolerate anyone touching.

Three years later, at an industry networking gala, a familiar face flashed past Chang Nian.

As if he'd caught sight of his only light, Chang Nian stumbled after him, only to watch helplessly as the man embraced someone else.

A poor, top student who starts out as a lovesick doormat and later devotes himself to research, the pursuer, Ji Jue x A wealthy tycoon who starts out as an arrogant young master and later becomes obsessive and unhinged, the pursued, Chang Nian

Rekindled romance, with the pursuer paying dearly to win him back

Theme: Though the road ahead may be winding, it always leads upward.