Lan Weiyi is beautiful. Anyone who has ever seen him will remember him, but no one dares to be his friend.
Zhou Bei is very fond of Lan Weiyi. He wants to see that beautiful face lose focus over him, and those cold, lonely eyes linger for his sake.
He gives Lan Weiyi expensive gifts, but only wants him as a secret lover.
Dating Lan Weiyi would invite ridicule. His birth mother was a shameless mistress who would stop at nothing to marry into a wealthy family, and Lan Weiyi was born with an original sin. Everyone is supposed to hate him.
Zhou Bei doesn't want to be humiliated.
But Lan Weiyi refuses his gifts. The only thing on that beautiful face is scorn, as he tells Zhou Bei to get lost.
Zhou Bei turns against him. The Zhou family is powerful, and Lan Weiyi, whom no one even cares whether he has enough to eat, is soon driven to drop out, despite having top grades.
*
Not long afterward, Zhou Bei sees Lan Weiyi at the home of his uncle in name only.
His uncle, Pei Gu, is the head of the largest company in Jincheng, the Pei Corporation. He is a golden child, handsome and wealthy, and many people have to live at his mercy, including the Zhou family.
Zhou Bei had heard that Pei Gu brought someone home and cherished them deeply. The whole city had been speculating about who it was. He never imagined it would be Lan Weiyi.
Zhou Bei sees the gaze that Lan Weiyi never lingered on anyone with finally come to rest, and a great tenderness fill that beautiful face. But none of it is for him. It's for his uncle, Pei Gu.
Zhou Bei is so unwilling to accept it that he feels like he's going mad. He hints tactfully to his uncle that Lan Weiyi is an illegitimate child, with dirty blood running through his veins. If Pei Gu knew who he really was, he surely wouldn't like him.
Holding Lan Weiyi's hand, Pei Gu looks at Zhou Bei as if he were trash. "He is my lifelong partner. By rights, you should call him Uncle. If the Zhou family raises such an ill-mannered young man, then its days are numbered."
Later, Zhou Bei's family goes bankrupt. As he drinks himself into a stupor on the street, he hears that Lan Weiyi has been proven not to be an illegitimate child, but the true young master of the Lan family, switched at birth.
When he steps outside, he happens to see Lan Weiyi in Pei Gu's arms, as Pei Gu kisses his cheek tenderly.
And from beginning to end, Lan Weiyi never looks at Zhou Bei once.
*
Lan Weiyi has always walked in darkness, unable to see the end of the road. The world keeps its distance from him.
Until Pei Gu appears with a light. Pei Gu kisses his scars, takes his hand, and promises to love him forever.
"I walked across a barren stretch of sand, only to find a peerless, brilliant gem."
An independent, strong, cold beauty who is the pursued one x a doting, jealous CEO who is the pursuer
Reading notes:
1. This story has a melodramatic, cliched switched-at-birth plot. I've already complained about it myself.
2. I'm focused on writing a sweet romance, so don't expect logic.
3. To be determined.
Theme: Redemption
