She felt and believed that she was the closest to him but that single incident led him to distance himself from her.
He was never close to anyone in college still he at least nodded back when she greeted him, it was very normal if you think about it because she was the only one who ever tried to greet him as the rest of them distanced himself from him because of the unusually cold air around him and that he was not someone 'important' back then in the Qin tree, well, not that her irrational brain ever saw that but after that incident, even she felt that he had distanced himself from her as, even she saw him, only when the chairman introduced him as the CEO of the Empire last year.
She was happy for him because no one thought that he will succeed considering the 'princess' was still the known heir but now he got it.
Plus, with the title over his name, her family will allow them to be together.
She was elated, it was like fate was hinting on something.