Red Rose

[Complete] Next book: Other Shore, about a princess and her consort

Cool and beautiful x proud and flamboyant

Rekindled romance, happy ending

In her first year of high school, Chu Yu met someone who was willing to put her first.

Meng Jin came from a wealthy family. He was proud and free.

Maybe their mutual love at first sight had been planned long ago. Their blatant flirtation came with an overwhelmingly possessive streak.

The day they first met at the tutoring center, the boy stood against the light, roguish and flamboyant. His long, slender fingers, each joint distinct, tapped on her desk. "Hey, classmate, teach me too, will you?"

One day, he walked her home. The bewitching, hazy look in her eyes made him unable to hold back any longer. Beneath a silk tree in the park, on a bench, he looked at her with dark eyes and said, "I want to kiss you."

"As what?"

"Your boyfriend."

Under the streetlights, their shadows merged, leaving no gap between them...

With her cool disposition, she had never told him about her past or anything else. A rare look of disappointment appeared on his face. "I know nothing about you. Maybe I'm the one who doesn't really know you." He felt that, to her, he was optional.

Always proud and self-assured, cold and aloof, he hid his love behind a calm exterior because she was so beautiful and he believed that what you can't have is best. He was afraid she wouldn't cherish him.

At the school anniversary gala, under the stage lights, the handsome couple performed a love waltz together. From then on, he became the tall, elegant prince everyone at school admired, while she was his peerlessly beautiful princess.

Love in the bloom of youth is always so beautiful. Their equally proud personalities led to arguments, but they never once mentioned breaking up.

Until later, when his family fell on hard times. He could still clearly remember how she had looked dancing the waltz back then. But he was no longer a prince, and he couldn't make her a real "princess."

The weather matched the mood that day, absolutely miserable.

He said flatly, "Let's break up. I'm tired of looking at your face."

Chu Yu stood motionless, staring at him. He had never been able to withstand that look in her eyes.

He answered her harshly and decisively. "Stop looking at me like that. Now it only makes me sick."

Chu Yu held back her grief and calmly agreed.

In truth, she had long known about his circumstances and understood his pride. He didn't want her to see him down and out, and he was afraid of holding her back, so she accepted it calmly.

Before graduating from high school, Meng Jin left school to prepare for his comeback. How could he bear to let her go? She mattered more to him than his own life.

Later, Chu Yu went abroad to attend a business school, all so she could do something related to his world.

That winter, the first snowfall was especially heavy. Unable to contain his longing, he went near her home and stood there, staring intensely at the tenth floor. She didn't move. The snow kept falling, nearly burying him, but he still couldn't bring himself to leave.

After graduating from university, Chu Yu wasn't ready to return home. In just a year, she worked her way up from an entry-level position to management at a foreign company. Then her father suddenly called her home to take over a company on the brink of bankruptcy. At the last moment, Meng Jin, who had been quietly keeping an eye on her all along, reached out to help.

On their wedding day, they had a traditional Chinese ceremony, a marriage between wealthy families, with honored guests filling the seats, wedding finery stretching for miles, and crowds filling the streets.

Theme: May all who love each other end up together