Chapter 1 He Returned to China
"You won, you made me fall in love with you all over again."
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Jiang Yimian had just come out of a lecture. The early autumn of September did not bring any coolness; the sun was still very strong.
Her tall and slender figure stood out in the crowd.
"Little Sleepyhead~"
Jiang Yimian held the phone to her ear and asked directly, "Want to drink?"
"NONONO, I've already quit. Have you checked your phone?"
"Your cold-hearted childhood sweetheart has returned to China."
Jiang Yimian returned to her dormitory. Her roommate hadn't come back yet. The graduate student dormitories at Peking University were quite large, with two people per room. She took out a piece of bread, took a bite, and said, "Oh."
"No, why aren't you excited? Your 'strong' is here!"
Jiang Yimian: "If I'm not mistaken, he's coming back to arrange a marriage with Lu Yiwan."
Silence on the other end...
"I'm excited about his marriage to Lu Yiwan? Am I stupid?"
"He must have been kicked in the head by a donkey."
"Or are you out of your mind because of the alcohol?"
"He is now Lu Yiwan's strongman."
Chu Yao: "...Okay, Mianmian, let's drink instead."
Jiang Yimian finished a piece of bread and went to the library. She hadn't finished her thesis yet, and her advisor was urging her to finish it.
Several messages were pushed to my phone.
Bo Jinzhou, the heir to the Bo family fortune, returned to China, accompanied by his fiancée, Lu Yiwan.
The true nature of their childhood sweetheart relationship remains to be seen, particularly between Bo Jinzhou and Lu Yiwan.
Jiang Yimian put her phone on silent and looked at the picture below the push notification text.
On the tarmac, a private plane stood there, but the most eye-catching thing was the man on the escalator.
A black shirt paired with a black suit, the handcrafted fabric crisp and hard, long legs encased in tailored suit trousers, sharp profile, superior bone structure, handsome and dashing.
His cold, handsome features were tinged with weariness, and just looking at the photos, you could feel the extremely oppressive aura emanating from him.
The pretty figure behind him was like a thorn in his side, staring shyly at the man's back.
Their smiles are shy and sweet; they actually look quite well-matched.
With the phone screen off, Jiang Yimian coldly set it aside.
'Autumn Fall' is a bar owned by Chu Yao. It's located in a bustling area. The bar was quite quiet at around 9 p.m., but people were starting to come in one after another.
The people who come here are all kinds of people, dressed boldly and unrestrainedly. In addition, since Young Master Chu opened a bar, many rich young men would come to patronize it. Chu Yao's aesthetic sense is also very unique, so the decoration style here is very extravagant.
In Jiang Yimian's words, it was "flashy and gaudy".
So when Jiang Yimian appeared in a white top and high-waisted jeans, it looked quite out of place.
Once seated at the booth, Jiang Yimian poured herself a glass of wine. Chu Yao, wearing a floral shirt and with red hair, sat next to her, putting his arm around her shoulder and speaking softly, "Little Yimian~ I'm heartbroken."
Jiang Yimian glanced at him, "Dumped again?"
Chu Yao said righteously, "It's not that I dumped him, it's that I don't want him anymore."
Jiang Yimian put down her wine glass: "You still have this much ambition?"
Chu Yao: "Little Mianmian, you're so naughty."
The two drank two glasses together, and Chu Yao kept complaining about his eighth boyfriend who had cheated on him.
The conversation then turned to Bo Jinzhou and Lu Yiwan.
He slurred, "Those two bastards! Bo Jinzhou is a real piece of work. He actually abandoned you and ran off to America with Su Yuwan. Damn it, don't let me catch them, or I'll beat them to a pulp."
Su Yuwan was Lu Yiwan's former name. Although she changed her name to Lu Yiwan, many years later everyone had forgotten her original name, but Chu Yao still called her by her original name.
"You've had too much to drink, so don't throw up on me."
Chu Yao leaned his chin closer and rested his head on her shoulder. "Little Mianmian, don't worry, with your good girl like me around, no one can bully you."
He looked really drunk. Jiang Yimian shook her head, put him on the sofa to lean against, and got up to call the waiter to help him to his room to rest.
The lighting was dim, and she suddenly stopped as she passed the VIP booths.
"Yi Wan, why don't you bring President Bo to meet us? You're about to get engaged, why are you still keeping him hidden?"
"Yes, you two have been together for so many years, you should have settled down a long time ago."
Lu Yiwan sat in the middle, surrounded by everyone, looking shy: "Oh dear, don't be in such a hurry, it'll be ready soon."
"Yi Wan, you'd better keep a close eye on President Bo. Jiang Yimian might be eyeing him covetously." Someone kindly reminded her.
"Hey, what is Jiang Yimian? If President Bo could have taken a liking to her, he wouldn't have gone abroad with Yiwan seven years ago, leaving her alone in the country. Besides, Jiang Yimian has an eccentric and unlikable personality, and is inferior to Yiwan in every way. President Bo isn't blind, so why would he choose her? She doesn't pose any threat."
One of them scoffed, "I'm afraid she'll try to seduce President Bo. In short, Yi Wan, you'd better be careful."
Lu Yiwan's expression remained calm and gentle. "Yimian is not that kind of person. Although her personality is a bit... but that's all in the past. Even if she changed her surname and no longer uses Lu, she is still my sister."
"Don't talk about her like that."
Seeing this, the others said that she had too good a personality, and if it weren't for her family protecting her, she would have been tortured to death by Jiang Yimian long ago.
The group screamed and jumped up, scurrying around like rats.
Jiang Yimian was listening intently when she turned her head and saw Chu Yao with a drunken face and a wine bottle in his hand.
"You bitch, talking bad about Xiao Mianmian on my turf, believe me or not I'll beat you up."
Lu Yiwan also saw Jiang Yimian, and her face turned pale with fright. "Mianmian, please persuade Young Master Chu. That's not what we meant."
Jiang Yimian's beautiful, jewel-like pupils shifted, landing on Lu Yiwan's hypocritical face. "What do you mean? Tell me."
Under the gazes of those around her, Lu Yiwan bit her lip, looking extremely aggrieved, as if Jiang Yimian were a ruthless bandit bullying her.
"Mianmian, I'm sorry... I made you unhappy."
As she spoke, large tears fell from her eyes.
Tears streamed down her face, and someone couldn't bear to watch. "Hey, she's crying, don't be so unreasonable."
Jiang Yimian looked at the man: "Which of your dog eyes saw me being unreasonable?"
"If you feel sorry for her crying, then comfort her. What does it have to do with me?"
The man muttered, "She's not my girlfriend, why should I coax her?"
Suddenly, the person next to Lu Yiwan raised their voice: "President Bo! Yiwan, look, it's President Bo!"
Lu Yiwan still had tears in her eyes, looking extremely pitiful, and she looked anxiously at Bo Jinzhou.
Bo Jinzhou noticed this side as soon as he entered, his gaze falling on the girl whose back was to him.
Her slender figure and ordinary attire could not conceal her noble and elegant temperament.
As Bo Jinzhou approached, Lu Yiwan's eyes darkened, and she immediately rushed over to stand in front of him. "Jinzhou, what brings you here?"
Bo Jinzhou wore a white shirt with the sleeves casually rolled up and two buttons undone at the collar. He looked relaxed and languid, and with one hand in his pocket, his noble and aloof temperament suddenly turned wild and unrestrained.
His gaze remained fixed on Jiang Yimian, and despite feeling the gaze beside him, Jiang Yimian's expression remained unchanged.
As if no one here could arouse her interest, she raised her hand and tucked a stray hair behind her ear.
Seeing that she was alright, Bo Jinzhou was relieved and was about to speak when Jiang Yimian was pulled over by Chu Yao and protected behind him.
He drunkenly held the bottle, "Bo Jinzhou, you dare to come to my turf? What? You want to protect her? Come on, I'll beat you to death today, you beast."
Lu Yiwan frowned. "Young Master Chu, please speak with more respect. This is too harsh."
Chu Yao: "Oh ho, I have even worse stuff to say, do you want to hear it, you green tea bitch?"
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(The female lead doesn't really love him in the beginning; she's just using him.) Sweet and angsty style~
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