The Spring Tide Comes Early

At seventeen, Zhou Tongjia was forced to transfer to City No. 1 High School, where everyone hated her.

Only Shen Ci treated her with quiet care, but one of his middle school classmates warned her, “One day, you’ll end up dead at his hands.”

Zhou Tongjia didn’t believe it. Her father didn’t care for her, her mother didn’t love her, and even her only younger brother saw her as a thorn in his side.

When Zhou Tongjia was in pain and despair, Shen Ci pulled her out of the endless darkness and told her she had to fight back.

A tiny flower bud called unrequited love bloomed in cracked soil.

Zhou Tongjia tended it carefully, watering it with her own blood.

She waited for so many years, going from a pitiful nobody to his personal secretary.

After one year of hardship followed another, her parents pressured her to marry, and Zhou Tongjia gave in.

On her wedding day,

twenty-seven-year-old Zhou Tongjia put on her white wedding dress and sat before the vanity, waiting to walk down the aisle.

Shen Ci barged in without a second thought. The usually aloof and dignified CEO Shen knelt on the floor and pleaded, “A-Tong, don’t marry him, okay? I looked into him. He’s a scumbag.”

Zhou Tongjia replied coolly, “If he’s willing to marry me, then I’m willing to marry him.”

As long as it wasn’t you, anyone would do.

“I’m willing, then. Why won’t you marry me?”

Zhou Tongjia had waited ten years to hear those words, but he’d only decided to marry her because he was afraid she’d marry a scumbag. Shen Ci really was a good person. He just didn’t love her.

Zhou Tongjia was single again, but a certain CEO started acting stranger and stranger.

He not only drove her to and from work every day, but also kept asking her out for dinner after work.

Zhou Tongjia was baffled. “CEO Shen, have you been really free lately?”

Shen Ci’s smile stiffened, and he asked cautiously, “Can’t you tell I’m pursuing you?”