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Capitalist heiress x aloof, impoverished top student
Shortly before leaving to study abroad, Li Can happened to see a photo of a boy.
A school uniform washed until it had faded white, the veins faintly visible on the back of his thin hand, a taut jaw, and a sharply defined profile. He was better-looking than many male celebrities she'd seen.
Not long afterward, she saw him again on the honor board at the school next door.
"Good-looking, right? He's our school's top student. I hear he's already been accepted to Tsinghua. Apart from being poor, there's nothing wrong with him," her friend told her proudly.
"Nothing wrong with him?"
Li Can laughed softly. She had always thought poverty was the greatest flaw a person could have.
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In the years before Shao Qingyan met her, his life had followed a set course. He always played by the rules, and from childhood, he'd stood at the top of his school and grade, winning the most honors.
Then he met Li Can.
People said she was a student at the international school across the street. One of her dresses cost forty or fifty thousand yuan, and a few days earlier, a friend had casually posted a video of her dancing online, attracting tens of thousands of followers.
Sadly, the heiress had no public social media account, so her fans had nowhere to follow her.
Shao Qingyan listened without much interest, all the while scribbling a schedule for his future part-time jobs in his notebook.
Nobody could have imagined that a few months later, on a rainy night, the heiress would spend hours on the phone with him, arching an eyebrow to hint,
"Shao Qingyan, Tsinghua has a publicly funded exchange program in the UK."
Even fewer people could have imagined that a few months after that, on another rainy night, Shao Qingyan would gradually snuff out the last of the heiress's hope that they could go on together.
"Li Can, you really know how to grind my self-respect into the dirt."
#From campus to the city
#Rekindled romance, one-on-one, happy ending
#The female lead isn't an unambiguously good person. Early on, she's an arrogant heiress x an aloof, poor top student. Later, she's still an heiress x a rising business tycoon.
#Seventy percent anti-piracy protection, 48-hour delay
Blurb written on 2022/12/12 and archived
----Coming soon: a prequel about her brother, Li Tan----
Endless City
Principled heiress x a scheming, sharp-tongued CEO who looks like a know-it-all at first glance
When Zhong Mingyi was twenty, the craziest thing she had ever done was fall out with her family, set off with a hundred dollars in her pocket, find a job on the streets of New York, and support herself.
The person who hired her was a Chinese alumnus of Harvard named Li Tan.
A math prodigy working on Wall Street, he had been a major player at the top of the pyramid since birth. For some reason, he bought an art gallery in Lower Manhattan.
Zhong Mingyi worked at Li Tan's gallery.
The gallery's owner only came by about twice a month, but he was so demanding about the artwork that Zhong Mingyi often argued with him over gallery matters.
If the salary he paid hadn't been so high, she would never have worked for him for two whole years.
When she quit, Zhong Mingyi breathed a long sigh of relief. She said goodbye politely, telling him they might meet again someday, but all she thought was, Never again.
But she never imagined that seven years later, in Yuncheng, Li Tan would sit across from her as her blind date.
The moment she saw Li Tan, her expression briefly cracked.
But thanks to her good upbringing, she still smiled gracefully and said, "Senior Li, long time no see."
"Mm." Li Tan was as sparing with words as ever.
Looking at his expression, Zhong Mingyi thought that he probably didn't want to be on this blind date either. They might as well be direct and go their separate ways as soon as possible.
"Senior..." Just as she was about to speak, Li Tan cut in first. "My family has been pestering me about this for years, and I'm getting tired of it. If you're willing, let's get married."
"...Huh?" Zhong Mingyi slowly wore an expression full of question marks.
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In his twenties, Li Tan had met a girl in New York.
He didn't have any special feelings for her. He just thought she was foolish. Her family had enough money to let her spend without restraint, yet she insisted on making life difficult for herself and cutting ties with them.
He hired her because of her professional ability.
After two years together, Li Tan thought they'd gotten along well enough. They hadn't exactly parted on bad terms.
So when his family forced him to go on another blind date and he realized the match was Zhong Mingyi, he thought he could at least propose a partnership to her.
But to his surprise, Zhong Mingyi firmly told him, "No."
"Senior, if I get married, it has to be to someone I truly love. A marriage for the sake of a business arrangement isn't what I want."
Li Tan paused. In that instant, only one thought crossed his mind.
After all these years, she was still just as foolish.
"All right."
He took a sip of coffee as if nothing had happened.
When he glanced at Zhong Mingyi again, a ray of sunlight happened to pass through the café window and fall across her cheek.
The woman sitting opposite him seemed to glow.
"Senior, I never told you back then, but you're really so pretentious and sharp-tongued. You're incredibly annoying."
"Is that so? But... during those thousand and one nights in Manhattan, I had already fallen in love with you."
Theme: Study hard and make progress every day
Can you write down Li Can's journey from his perspective?
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"Wutong Avenue" by East Wind Blows|Li Can×Shao Qingyan The moment the snowflakes fall outside the window. The world is desolate, only love is in full bloom. ——I suddenly had the idea of proposing. ——Then, there happened to be a ring in the drawer. Finished reading! Overall it's still pretty good! The title "Wutong Avenue" is very suitable for the full text. I really want to visit such a place and walk around the place where they lived. This road runs through the whole text. Summer should be very beautiful, bustling and lively, suitable for the youth of seventeen or eighteen years old. Li Can and Shao Qingyan met in winter and hugged each other tightly in summer. To be honest, Li Can and I are quite similar in terms of being cold-faced. I also have a cold-faced face every day, and it's as if someone owes me money. I remember that after I got acquainted with my roommate, she told me that her first impression of me was that I was not an easy person to get along with. In fact, after playing for a long time, I realized that this was not the case. After reading the full article, I can also find that Li Can is not a difficult person to get along with, as is rumored by the outside world. Therefore, sometimes you really can't just look at the surface, but have to feel it with your heart. Just like before I saw the back story, I preconceived that Li Can's parents, Sun Wei and Li Zhaoyun, were irresponsible and did not give Li Can enough care and love, which created her current character. But in fact, her parents loved her very much. To be honest, I really didn't expect some of the plot twists. In fact, I was also very surprised at the beginning. Why did the high-ranking young lady suddenly show malice to a poor boy? Even if the poor boy is handsome, it shouldn't be malicious. After seeing it later, I understood the reason. The teacher really foreshadowed a lot. Wuwuwu, he gave me a knife invisibly, no This arrangement is very reasonable, otherwise I would also be thinking, if they get together without any hindrance after graduating from high school, will they stay together forever? Although this is not possible, there is no doubt that separation at that time is the best choice. After becoming better people, they meet at the top, and their love is evenly matched. The friendship between the five people in the article is also very good. Li Can, Lin Jiajia, Tao Jingran, He Minglang, Gao Feng, the friendship they grew up with in kindergarten, going where they want to go, doing what they want to do, many of the records are so beautiful, I really envy them. When Lin Jiajia and Tao Jingran first appeared, my deputy CP radar went off. I thought I was happy that enemies were getting together without any twists and turns, but it turned out that they only got together after going round and round. Lin Jiajia later said that he was not interested and let it go. I thought it was over, but I didn't expect that they got together in the extra episode, even later than Li Can and Shao Qingyan. Hahahaha. Love can overcome all difficulties. This sentence is perfect for Li Can and Shao Qingyan. It is difficult to be together when they are young. Apart from the big difference in their family backgrounds, they also have Li Can's mother Sun Wei's good friend Chen Min, and Shao Qingyan's irresponsible biological father Chen Hong. They are growing up step by step, and reunion is a better encounter. They each have abilities and can solve problems better. Last but not least, when Li Can's brother Li Tan appeared, I was looking forward to his story. I always felt that he was a person with his own story. I went to the column to read it, and sure enough, the teacher had published a separate book. Hahahaha, it's good. I like the series, so I will update it here. Hahahahaha. Thanks to the teacher for the story that helped me spend this ordinary but happy Friday.
Second brush 😍 😍 Cancan and Xiaoshao will be happy forever! So pretty!!!!!!!!!!
Nice!!!! There are very few sub-CP threads and I want to read them too!!!! Love watching!!!
I finished reading it in one day. You must continue to live well in the parallel world.
After all the hardships come happiness, we Qingyan will continue to be happy together with Cancan.
Damn, brother, can you also open a book? I want to read his story.
Damn, brother, can you also open a book? I want to read his story.
I like good-looking and long-lasting water