No one would ever connect Chen Yang and Fu Huaili.
One is a refined young gentleman from a family of great wealth and status, cultured, graceful, and effortlessly composed. The other is an unremarkable female student at Jing University.
At Jing University's centennial celebration, he was the campus's guest of honor, while she was a student usher assigned to welcome guests.
When the hem of her skirt accidentally caught on his cuff link, all he said was, "It's fine."
The next time they met, she stood beneath the eaves at the edge of the rain, soaked through, pale and thin.
His car pulled up beside her. Fu Huaili's voice was low and clear. "I have a fresh shirt in my suite. Want to come sit for a while?"
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In this relationship, Chen Yang never felt the divide in their social status.
He cared for her in every way, and treated her as an absolute equal.
He never let her feel uncomfortable. He stood up for her through every twist and turn. On a night that left a deep mark on her heart, he wrote Yangyang in his palm and whispered her pet name beside her ear.
And yet, even a love like this still ended in a breakup.
During their two years together, he taught her design and built her a house.
When they parted, she took nothing, not even the cuff link from their first meeting. She left to study abroad without looking back.
The year after Chen Yang left, Fu Huaili found a handwritten letter in the house, signed by his own hand.
-Eight years ago, a student sponsored at Jingbei No. 1 High School: Chen Yang.
He was her sponsor.
It turned out their meeting at Jing University hadn't been the first time he saw her. It had simply been one of the many times she had seen him.
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Long after they broke up, while she was studying abroad, Chen Yang was walking back and forth from her residence with her roommate and a stack of papers, as usual, when a familiar figure suddenly appeared on the street she had to take.
Fu Huaili was dressed in a black coat, waiting for her there. His striking figure stood out, and his gaze was shadowed, carrying a hard-to-suppress, obscure heat.
"Can you really bear to leave, Chen Yang?"
Chen Yang looked away, keeping her voice cool. "Mr. Fu, I've moved on."
Fu Huaili gripped her wrist, his voice hoarse and thick with unmistakable pain. "You can move on. I can't."
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No one would ever have imagined Chen Yang and Fu Huaili together when they were eighteen.
But eight years later, Chen Yang would find her own place in the sun.
She had been content to love him in secret, as if walking through a vast snowfield, asking for nothing in return.
But much later, Fu Huaili found her himself and told her that she was the rarest treasure he would ever find in this life.
Secret crush / Reunion after years apart / Bittersweet yearning / Both leads are each other's first
Cultured playboy x Cool and reserved
Theme: Stay resolute and persevere
