3D modeler x water conservancy engineer
A streetwise cool girl and an icy older woman
The summer vacation of her second year of high school, seventeen-year-old Chen Yangzhou was forced to meet Meng Tingzhu, who had come to tutor her. Her father told her that Meng had just taken the college entrance exam and earned top marks.
On the day of the first lesson, Chen decided to put this older girl, whom her father praised to the skies, in her place. She crossed her legs, opened her textbook, and said carelessly, "My family is rich. I don't have to work part-time to pay my tuition like you. I'm going to study abroad when I grow up."
Meng Tingzhu said nothing and calmly finished the lesson. Before leaving, she cornered Chen against the wall, smiled, and said, "The way of the noble person is like a journey to a distant place: it must begin nearby. It is like climbing a high mountain: it must begin at the foot." After that, she never came back.
At the time, Chen didn't understand. She shrugged indifferently, clicked her tongue, and privately laughed at Meng Tingzhu's scholar-like pretentiousness.
At twenty-one, Chen met Meng Tingzhu again. Chen was at the end of her rope: her family had gone bankrupt, and her father was in prison, no longer able to support her studies abroad through graduation. She sat on a bridge for a long time, then decided to jump and end her life.
She climbed onto the railing and spotted Meng Tingzhu by the river, wearing a hard hat and dark blue work clothes. Holding a crude plastic water container, she was talking with the workers nearby. She looked plain to the extreme. Chen watched for a long time, silently climbed down from the railing, and scuffed the gravel with her shoe. She clicked her tongue to herself. "It's been years, and a top university graduate hasn't done any better than this."
There was still a long life ahead of her. She wasn't necessarily any worse than Meng Tingzhu.
After that, Chen entered the workforce with only her high school diploma, scraping by on a factory assembly line.
At twenty-seven, Chen taught herself 3D modeling, headed north to look for work, and embarked on a journey in pursuit of rivers. There, she got to know Meng Tingzhu all over again.
Meng Tingzhu was a promising young deputy chief engineer who had been parachuted into a research institute. She was always cold, with elegant steps and impeccable outfits, an untouchable flower on a lofty peak.
But no one knew.
The abstinent beauty, glamorous and mysterious in everyone's eyes, had been born lonely, met with loneliness at every turn, and feared being alone.
Meng Tingzhu said,
"Yangyang, do you know what the 'Ting' in my name means?"
"It's confinement, restraint, a prison I'm desperate to escape."
"The mountain mist is thick. We are forgotten, yet still free."
"All rivers flow to the sea. We are abandoned, yet spared hardship."
1.
"Meng Tingzhu, long time no see. Here's my resume."
"Looking for a job?"
"Yeah..."
"Your family is so rich. Why do you need a job?"
2.
"Chen Yangzhou, you really live up to your name."
"Huh?"
"You're a mess in every way: virtue, intellect, fitness, aesthetics, and labor."
Reader's Guide
One-on-one, happy ending, older woman and younger woman.
Engineer Meng: I only pretend to be abstinent. The sharp tongue is real.
About rivers and watershed development.
Theme: Protect water resources and cherish every drop.
