Abandoned Dog

1.

There are many different social classes in this world.

For the first half of her life, Li Xuan belonged to the lowest of the low.

With a birthmark the size of a bowl on her face, she dropped out of high school and scraped by day to day doing odd jobs at a factory.

When she was twenty, she found a fool.

His face was smeared with blood and covered in cuts and bruises.

But he had a great body.

Li Xuan didn't mind. She took him home,

fed him rice porridge and steamed buns, coaxed the fool into saying he loved her, and started dating him.

Later, after the fool had recovered, Li Xuan realized he was actually quite handsome.

He was well-proportioned and had an air of nobility.

When Li Xuan fell ill, the fool was frantic.

He carried her through the torrential rain for several kilometers to the hospital in town.

Burning with fever and barely able to think straight, Li Xuan saw a famous tycoon on TV sobbing as he held the fool in the hospital.

Before long, a large crowd of glamorous people arrived. They surrounded the fool and respectfully called him Brother Sheng.

Lying in a VIP room, Li Xuan smelled his cologne and stared at the white powder mark on his sleeve. She asked softly, "Will you still come home with me?"

He smiled with polished coolness. "Thank you, Miss Li, for saving my life. Whatever you want, I'll agree to it."

Then Li Xuan knew that her fool had died in that rainstorm. From now on, all that remained was Sheng Tianhong, a man too far above her to reach.

He was a figure at the very top of the pyramid, able to turn the world upside down with a laugh and command the wind and rain.

They were worlds apart.

She didn't cling to him. She made an outrageous demand: five hundred thousand yuan.

Sheng Tianhong was generous. He gave her fifty million yuan, three houses, and a car.

He left her the number of an assistant and promised she could ask him for one more favor.

2.

In Sheng Tianhong's memory,

Li Xuan was crude, savage, and greedy, so he was sure she would quickly spend the money and come back asking for more.

That would be just the thing to wear away the itchy little pang of longing in his heart.

But five years passed, and Li Xuan never called that number.

She used the money to get plastic surgery, study, and travel around the world.

She even walked right past him without looking, arm in arm with another man.

3.

Twenty-eight-year-old Li Xuan lay in a mansion, listening to the person beside her talk about their laughable past.

Remembering the wish Sheng Tianhong had promised to grant, she asked if he still remembered it.

Sheng Tianhong said he did. He was already thinking that even if Li Xuan asked to marry him, he would agree.

"Then can we break up?" Li Xuan asked, her voice perfectly calm.

The temperature in the room plunged.

Sheng Tianhong answered in a calm, utterly even voice, like the sea before a storm.

"No."

Theme: Stay positive and fight for the life you want.