[Shanghai Elite Family Heir vs. Pure-Hearted Beauty]
Zhou Luchen is a distinguished young heir from one of Shanghai's top families. Authoritarian and self-serving, he has one peculiar hobby: renting out entire venues to listen to pipa performances and storytelling.
His friends couldn't understand why, and asked him what he liked about it.
With a cigarette between his teeth, Zhou Luchen answered with utter seriousness, "She's beautiful."
From then on, the beauty onstage became his official girlfriend.
1.
The Zhou family had always been strict, keeping a close watch on their only son's words and conduct. But Zhou Luchen was decisive and forceful in everything he did. One day he'd break a family rule and make the headlines; the next he'd be making moves in the venture capital market. Finally, the family flew into a rage and sent him off to copy Buddhist scriptures.
On the Cold Dew festival, ginkgo leaves carpeted the grounds of the ancient temple.
In the Jade Buddha Hall, Zhou Luchen was hardly one to follow the rules. The jade-edged scriptures lay scattered across the floor, and every carefree stroke of his brush etched the same two characters: Shen Jing.
With a beauty in his arms, what did a young heir like him have to repent for?
He lifted his languid eyes and glanced at the beauty asleep in his embrace. A hint of amusement glimmered in his gaze. "Are you afraid you'll sink into ruin with someone like me?"
She was.
Shen Jing, the beauty in question, knew it all too well. The young heir lived for pleasure and wasn't the sort to fall deeply in love.
The day she asked to break up, everyone in their circle was stunned.
Shen Jing wheeled her suitcase out of Shanghai. "He said he wouldn't marry me. I might as well give him back to someone else."
2.
Three years after their split, Shen Jing saw Zhou Luchen again at an international financial summit. He was presiding over the event as Chairman Zhou, wearing a perfectly tailored suit, with fine silver-rimmed glasses perched on his straight nose. He looked so refined and aloof, as if he knew nothing of life's hardships.
They met at a corner, and Shen Jing fled in a panic.
The man stood tall and composed, calmly straightening his cufflinks before striding forward on long legs.
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