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When Ah Li was nine, a young man, seriously injured, came to stay next door. He had striking features—sharp brows, clear eyes, and an unmatched handsomeness. Ah Li secretly admired him for a long time.

At fourteen, she overheard that he had been “abandoned.” Summoning her courage, she ran to him and said, “Don’t be sad. If she doesn’t want you, I do.”

Huo Jue’s response was swift—he threw her out. Standing there in the bright spring sunlight, his eyes colder than the ice piles on Kaiyang Lake, he looked at her with an expression as indifferent as stone.

Feeling hurt, Ah Li left. But two days later, she returned with a small, handmade pouch. The young man who answered the door seemed somehow changed.

He looked at her silently, his deep gaze weighted with unspoken emotion as if it had traveled across time to find hers.

After a long pause, he gently brushed a strand of hair from her shoulder. A faint smile softened his usual coldness as he asked, “Ah Li, do the words you said that day still hold true?”

Without hesitation, Ah Li replied, “Yes, they do.”

Ah Li always believed that she had reached out and pulled Huo Jue back from his solitude.

But one day, she found an old book. Page after page, she discovered countless sketches of herself: Ah Li at nine, at ten, at eleven… each line drawn with painstaking care.

In that moment, she realized—long before she had ever noticed him, Huo Jue had been quietly, secretly, in love with her. <<less

Five years ago, Lu Huaiyan’s casual remark—“Dull and uninteresting, nothing special”—buried Jiang Se’s girlish affections on the night of her 18th birthday.... more>>

That night, Jiang Se secretly made a wish: May someone, in this lifetime, ride in with glory and trample his face into the ground.

Five years later, Jiang Se suddenly fell from being a prestigious socialite of Beicheng to a fake heiress with a poor background. Losing her title, leaving Beicheng, and becoming self-reliant—she accepted it all gladly.

The only tiny regret? She figured she’d never get to witness Lu Huaiyan’s face being mercilessly ground into the dirt.

Later—

The cold and ruthless heir of the Lu family accidentally found out about her little regret.

Understanding just how much of a grudge she could hold, he pulled her out of bed, lifted her left foot, and pressed his face against it, speaking leisurely:

"Go ahead, rub all you want."

Jiang Se: "…"

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Once, when Jiang Se followed behind him calling “Huaiyan-ge,” Lu Huaiyan didn’t even spare the little girl a glance.

Later, he realized—it was damn near impossible to coax her into calling him “Huaiyan-ge” again…

[Mini Scene]

One day, rumors spread that Lu Huaiyan was engaged to the Guans’ little princess.

Jiang Se sent him a short message: Goodbye.

That night, Lu Huaiyan rushed to the airport to stop her.

Jiang Se smiled. “Lu Huaiyan, I don’t touch what belongs to others. Let’s part on good terms.”

Lu Huaiyan gritted his teeth, grabbed her wrist, and said, “What? You don’t even touch what belongs to you anymore?”

Shortly after, the Lu family’s CEO made it to the trending searches with a single Weibo post:

#Not engaged. No marriage. My little ancestor is hard to please and hard to win over. I’m still pursuing her.# <<less