Can't Help Falling for You

When Song Miao first met Mr. Song, she was fifteen.

That year, after Song Miao graduated from junior high, Old Master Song sternly insisted that his son send his eldest granddaughter to the city for high school.

Faced with Old Master Song's sudden insistence, Song Miao's father had no choice but to bring his daughter to the city as requested.

But Song Miao's father had become a big-shot businessman and was superstitious. Neither he nor his wife wanted to go fetch their eldest daughter, and they didn't trust anyone else to do it, so they asked Song Qiyan to bring Song Miao back.

Afterward, Song Miao would often look back and think:

When you're young, you really shouldn't meet someone so dazzling. For the rest of your life, you'll be unable to let go, unwilling to give up, and still longing for them.

Song Miao: "Mr. Song, do you know? The first time I saw you, I knew I was no match for you..."

Because I loved you, I lost completely.

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After graduating from high school, Song Miao didn't go to university in China. Instead, she applied to schools overseas.

Only then did her parents realize that their eldest daughter, whom they had barely paid attention to, was actually an outstanding student, even if they had never known it.

Far from home in a foreign country, Song Miao stayed away for seven years.

It wasn't until her grandfather started missing her that she decided to return to China.

When they met again, Song Qiyan was still as brilliant and dazzling as ever. But Song Miao no longer pursued him as recklessly as she once had. Whenever Song Qiyan was around, she would find a way to avoid him.

Who could have guessed that he would keep closing in on her?

In a rose-filled garden behind the house, a tipsy Song Qiyan caught Song Miao by the wrist and laced his fingers with hers.

"Miao Miao, if Grandpa hadn't asked you to come, were you planning to never come back for the rest of your life?"

"..."

Song Miao stared wide-eyed at the man before her.

He continued, "Song Miao, do you even have a heart?"

Song Miao parted her lips. "...Don't you know whether I have a heart?"

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The Song family had twin daughters: one lived in the mountains, the other in the city.

The official explanation was that Song Miao's parents were busy with their business and didn't have time to raise the children. So they left the healthier twin, the elder sister, with her grandfather in the countryside, and took the frail younger sister, who was often sick and needed to see a doctor.

The truth, however, was that a half-blind fortune-teller passing through had said the elder sister's birth chart clashed with her parents'. If they raised her together with them, she would hurt their business, so they left her in the countryside.

The younger sister, meanwhile, was blessed with endless good fortune and could bring luck to the family.

And it seemed to be true.

Song Miao's parents took the younger daughter with them to Jiang City, where their business flourished. Within a few years, they had made it onto the local rich list, with their fortunes still on the rise.

As Song Miao's parents grew richer over the years, they became more convinced of the fortune-teller's prediction. They ignored their eldest daughter in the countryside, afraid that any contact with her might bring them bad luck.

It wasn't until Old Master Song spoke up that the couple seemed to finally remember they had an eldest daughter. They asked a close friend's son, who had just graduated from high school, to bring Song Miao back. After only a brief meeting, they sent her off to live by herself.

Song Miao: "..."

Blurb posted on 2022/7/8, updated on 2022/10/13, and saved as a screenshot.

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