The domineering school bully takes the beauty by force, leaving him in dire straits.
Everyone pities the beauty and tries to rescue him from his predicament.
But the beauty doesn't want to escape.
Just as everyone realizes the two are already deeply in love and cannot be parted, news comes that they've broken up.
Onlookers speculate wildly. Some say the bully got bored, while others say the beauty finally escaped.
At a class reunion many years later, Qin Songhan and Lin Chenshu are both successful in their careers, yet sit at opposite corners of the same table. They don't speak or meet each other's eyes, as if they were strangers.
Qin Songhan x Lin Chenshu
Forceful school bully top x beauty bottom who gives in after initial resistance
A bit of an old-school flavor, with a touch of getting back together after a breakup.
Theme: Breaking through the old soil.