Breaking Off a Branch

Wen Yining had always believed that her twenty-first birthday was the darkest day of her life.

After a great deal of effort, her family elders had finally secured her an internship at the headquarters of Xunshi Group.

But when she knocked on the president's office door to report for work, the man sitting there ramrod straight and looking at her like an icy sniper was none other than Lu Tingzhi, the ex-boyfriend she had once dumped without a second thought, coldly and decisively.

Later, at her bachelorette party on the eve of their wedding, her best friend asked Wen Yining curiously, "When exactly did you two get together? How did you suddenly decide to get married without telling anyone?"

Wen Yining swirled the juice in her hand and gave an awkward smile. "At the class reunion in Xincheng, he asked me to go for a walk and offered to walk me home as soon as he saw me. I thought he was trying to climb the social ladder by getting close to me..."

Theme: Never forget your original intentions.