In the year Jin Shixian doted on Cheng Ci the most, even the people around him said she was an easy girl to be with.
She never asked for much, was obedient and sensible, never clung to him or made a scene, and parted on good terms with him after graduation. She was almost too well-behaved.
The only time she might have overstepped was when she came back to him one day after their breakup, then left again, leaving a sticky note as her goodbye.
With the Jin family as powerful as it was, was there anything Jin Shixian couldn't get if he wanted it? Finding out where a college student had gone was hardly difficult.
Yet he never asked a single question, as though he didn't care whether she stayed or left. Everyone who knew about their relationship said the same thing: Jin Shixian probably never took Cheng Ci seriously.
Four years later, Cheng Ci had made a name for herself in the industry. Ads for the jewelry brand she had just become the face of were plastered all over the city.
The campaign was so high-profile that even Jin Shixian, a man at the very top, noticed it.
By the river, he lit a cigarette and studied the ads for a long time.
The owner of those cool, indifferent eyes had once knocked on his door on a rainy night after their breakup, drenched and saying, “Jin Shixian, I'm unhappy.”
He had thought she still had at least a little affection for him.
But that day on set, she smiled and spoke with perfect politeness, saying she hoped they could keep their distance from then on.
She treated him like a stranger.
Backstage in the dressing room, someone casually brought up the old story. Cheng Ci didn't even open her eyes as she said, “Who is Jin Shixian? We were just passing acquaintances.”
And yet this same man, on the strength of a fleeting connection, knocked on her door the day he heard she planned to leave the industry and kissed her without a word.
The usually composed and distinguished Mr. Jin could be dark and unyielding too, all because of one sentence.
He gripped her wrist, almost forcing her to answer. “Cheng Ci, do you have to leave?”
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College girl × rich young heir
Cool and sensitive × gentle and refined
Five-year age gap | Older man
Theme: Love the world
