Ning Yichen is a winner in life whom everyone in high society envies.
Born into a wealthy family, handsome and brilliant, he was named the heir at a young age and has a childhood sweetheart for a fiancee.
But everything changed in the year his fiancee was a sophomore in college.
She met a poor underclassman at her school and, out of her mind, decided to pursue freedom.
How could Ning Yichen allow the life everyone envied to be taken from him? He quickly looked into the underclassman's background.
The underclassman had lost both parents and been raised by his older brother. His brother's startup was thriving and had a promising future.
Ning Yichen attacked him for being an orphan, framed him for cheating on an exam, threatened him with his brother's company, and even hired thugs to stake out the bar where he worked part-time, hoping to throw a sack over his head and beat him half to death.
The underclassman never showed up.
His older brother did.
Drunk, Ning Yichen mistook him for the underclassman and cursed him out mercilessly.
Then the older brother took him to a hotel and taught him a lesson in no uncertain terms.
When Ning Yichen woke up, the older brother was holding him, his manner utterly humble. "Don't marry her. Give me a chance instead, okay?"
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After they got together, Ning Yichen didn't change his wicked ways at all. He was domineering, spoiled, mercurial, and always finding new ways to torment the other man.
Xie Yun always accepted it all, patient and gentle, as if anything Ning Yichen did was okay.
Ning Yichen was almost ready to believe that he really loved him.
But when he traveled a thousand miles to return in time to celebrate Xie Yun's birthday, he heard the underclassman complain, "If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have to put up with him so much."
Ning Yichen left behind the carefully chosen gift, blocked Xie Yun on every platform, and told his fiancee's family about the underclassman.
Sure enough, his fiancee was confined at home, and their wedding was put on the calendar.
On the wedding day, his fiancee still eloped with the underclassman.
As Ning Yichen drove after them, he crashed through a guardrail and plunged into a reservoir with his car. As he sank into the water, he thought that his whole life was a joke.
He might as well let it end here.
He closed his eyes and let the cold water swallow him, only to see Xie Yun jump in without hesitation, his eyes so red they looked ready to bleed.
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While Ning Yichen was in the hospital, the underclassman came to apologize with a gift, groveling and behaving as meekly as possible.
He wasn't apologizing for stealing Ning Yichen's fiancee.
He was asking for help: "Sister-in-law, please don't be mad at my brother. He's about to cut ties with me. I only said those things because I was upset. My brother really loves you so much. He loves you more than anyone in the world. Please, forgive him."
Ning Yichen: ovo
So you can use the underclassman to throw your weight around while tormenting him?
!! The protagonist is a bad boy!!
Theme: Pay more attention to how you feel than to what other people think.