In the fifth year of knowing Nan Yi, he watches coldly as her life falls apart: her family fortunes decline, and her boyfriend cheats on her.
Standing not far away, he takes a small sip of strong tea and watches the whole farce unfold. His friend beside him clicks their tongue and can't help asking, "Aren't you going to help her? She looks like such a poor little thing."
Chen Jinzhi stubs out the cigarette between his fingers. "Help?"
He isn't a good person.
He's a businessman. He always expects something in return, but there's nothing he can get from her.
"Poor thing?"
He laughs softly. She probably fooled every one of them.
Just as he expects, on the first night Nan Yi comes to him, tears glimmer in her eyes as she puts on the performance of a lifetime and says, "Mr. Chen, what you're doing is immoral."
He reaches out and wipes away the tears at the corners of her eyes. He knows she's pretending, but plays along anyway.
"I don't have anything as quaint as a conscience. As for that boyfriend of yours..."
"He's not something I need to consider."
Everyone says that Nan Yi must have had a powerful mentor guiding her, since she achieved so much in just a few years.
On the night she leaves, she does something completely out of character and calls him first. "Mr. Chen, it's time to end this game of ours."
Her voice and attitude are utterly unlike what they used to be.
Chen Jinzhi tightens his grip on the phone. He knows she has no heart, yet he stubbornly lets himself get drawn into the game.
Theme: Girl, don't be so naive
