Only to Be Admired from Afar

Arrogant yet humble researcher girl x flirtatious, snake-like heir

Ji Xiang learned early on that men are creatures who look good only from a distance.

Take her biological father, whom she'd never met. He got her mother pregnant out of wedlock, leaving her to raise Ji Xiang alone. The mother and daughter depended on each other and struggled through many years.

Or take the superstar she'd admired for ages, who suddenly decided to marry her ordinary, penniless mother. It all looked like a scheme to Ji Xiang.

Then she met Yu Zhengqing.

He was her best friend's older brother. When she was a helpless, confused teenager, he generously offered her protection and support.

Back when she was young and naive, she thought perhaps he was an exception, someone to be admired from afar, untouchable.

They say that if you believe in love, you'll get divorced five times in this life.

Ji Xiang, who'd never dated anyone, joked casually on a variety show: For her first marriage she'd pick an outstanding young scholar, for her second a leading young academic, for her third an academician, and for her fourth a sophomore athlete.

Her best friend laughed herself silly when she heard, saying Ji Xiang was one marriage short, then read her a ridiculous online joke.

"'On a rainy night, the heir to a trillion-yuan pharmaceutical company speeds along an elevated highway in a Maybach. Before you can get into the lab, he pins you against a metal locker in the changing room and kisses you passionately. He shoves the court ruling in your patent lawsuit into your underwear and bites your ear: Dump him, and tomorrow I'll build you a P4 lab!'"

"Hahaha, what's wrong with this dumb AI? How many episodes of X Clan has it watched? Isn't it afraid of getting sued?"

Ji Xiang said nothing.

Because if you replaced the court ruling in the patent lawsuit with high-end jewelry worth over a hundred million, that was pretty much what happened last night.

You are my once-in-a-lifetime love.

No one else will ever have my heart.

*Note:

The main focus of the first 33 chapters is the family bond between the heroine and her family, and her friendship with her best friend. The heroine comes of age in Chapter 34, and the story then focuses on her romance.

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