The new production wrapped that day, and Xu Li was asked by the production team to drink with the investors. One of them took a liking to her. After forcing her to drink several rounds, he told her to sit beside him so he could make a move.
Xu Li looked pleadingly at the youngest man in the row.
His legs crossed, he lounged lazily in the corner, yet no one dared to overlook his presence.
For a long while, the man paid her no attention.
Xu Li was desperate. She stood up unsteadily, but just as she was about to sit down, the man beckoned to her. "Xu Li, come here."
Everyone else was astonished.
"Mr. He, do you two know each other?"
"We do."
He Jinming spoke with utter indifference, but his words kindled hope in Xu Li's heart.
After the banquet.
Xu Li thanked him obediently. "Thank you, Second Uncle."
The man before her was He Jinming, her fiance's second uncle, a man her fiance and his entire family were afraid to cross.
"How are you going to thank me?" He Jinming's lips curved into a roguish smile, completely unlike the refined, aloof man she'd seen earlier.
Xu Li thought for a moment, then said softly, "I'll treat you to dinner sometime."
He Jinming readily agreed. "Sure."
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Not long afterward, Xu Li caught her fiance cheating on her, with her roommate.
Just as she was at her most wretched, He Jinming reached out to her.
"I'm better than him. Give me a chance."
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Later, on a night of torrential rain, Xu Li came down with a high fever after filming a scene in the rain. He Jinming was so anxious that he lost his temper with the family doctor.
She pressed her pale lips together, held back for a long time, then grabbed his hand and asked,
"Second Uncle, have you ever truly liked me?"
He was both angry and amused.
Amused that she still had the time to ask such a question at a moment like this.
Angry that he had finally opened his heart to her for the first time, and she still didn't dare believe him.
Theme: Always hold on to hope.
