We've both become as we once dreamt we would be.
We've neither forgotten each other.
——Excerpt from "You Above the Milky Way", by Chen Enci.
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Chen Enci, a woman, the least favored daughter of the Chen Family, so disregarded that the entire capital circle thought that the Chen Family had only one daughter, Chen Rong, and one son, Chen Yao, completely forgetting about her existence as the eldest daughter.
Qin Jie, a man, the only heir of the Qin Family, who from birth till adulthood had all his wishes catered to, typifying the saying "all roads lead to Rome," born already in Rome.
Qin Jie is the sort of person around whom women are constantly flocking, just at the snap of his fingers. Without exaggeration, nine out of ten gossips in the capital circle involve Qin Jie.
Chen Enci is an unnoticed little wildflower. Not to mention the gossip news in the capital circle, even her own relatives from the Chen Family often forget the existence of a daughter named Chen Enci in the family.
In short, if Qin Jie and Chen Enci were to be put together, one is heaven, the other earth.
Qin Jie is heaven, Chen Enci is earth.
Such a glaring contrast, no one would assume a connection could exist between them.
For the first twenty years, Chen Enci and Qin Jie indeed had no intersection, but the day after Chen Enci's 20th birthday, her name became entwined with Qin Jie's.
She, the daughter who had been forgotten by the Chen Family for twenty years, finally caught the family's attention. She was to be wed, her spouse-to-be—the heavenly Qin Jie.
Chen Enci's stepmother, for the sake of the family business, arranged her marriage to Qin Jie, the capital circle's most notorious playboy. As someone who barely had a presence in the Chen Family, she couldn't even muster a word of protest before being forced into an engagement with a man whose name she didn't even know.
Qin Jie, the only young master of the Qin Family who, despite his tarnished reputation, still couldn't escape the fate of an arranged marriage. Facing the collective threats of a weeping, wailing, and threatening suicide from his grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles, he was forced to accept a fiancée he had never met before.
On the eve of the engagement, Chen Enci, seeing no way to resist, left a note and ran away in the dead of the night.
On the morning of the engagement day, Qin Jie, who had been monitored by bodyguards for half a month, finally escaped from the Qin Family, then booked a plane ticket and made a run for it.
Chen Enci, who ran away to Shanghai, in order to avoid being caught and brought back by her family, rented an apartment under the low-key name of Chen Xi. The apartment's address was: Unit 402, Block 3, Garden Community.
Qin Jie, who also fled to Shanghai, to avoid being caught and taken back by his family, bought a super shabby second-hand apartment under a friend's name. Its address was: Unit 402, Block 3, Garden Community.
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Five years later.
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Qin Jie became famous, more popular than mega stars. His explosive fame was due to the successful development of a medical robot, which made a significant contribution to the medical field.
In that report, there was a photo of Qin Jie.
Clean-cut short hair, refined features, precise contours—both facial appearance and bone structure were indisputably handsome.
The most striking were his eyes; more slender than peach blossom ones, deep at the corners, lightly downturned at the edges, slight red tints at the corners, provocatively captivating, tempting one into crime.
Even the dreadful pixel quality of the photo couldn't mask Qin Jie's extraordinary looks. His attractiveness was too high, high enough to overshadow the current popular young male stars. Therefore, overnight, he became the new darling of Weibo's trending list.
Consequently, for the following whole month, the Weibo trending list had various topics related to Qin Jie every day.
#QinJie'sMansion#
#QinJie'sPhone#
#QinJie'sWorldlyHandsomeLooks#
#ConfirmedByEyeContact, QinJie'sWaistCanBeEveryday'sWaist#
#...#
Until one day, someone dug up Qin Jie's dating history, and Weibo blew up.
#QinJieLoveHistory#
#QinJieChenEnci#
#QinJie'sExGirlfriendIsTheNumberOneSocialiteOfTheEntertainmentCircleChenEnci#
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Chen Enci was deep into her dream when she was awakened by a call from her agent, Lu Xing.
"Enci, is Qin Jie really your ex-boyfriend?"
Lu Xing's question right out of the blue instantly killed all of Chen Enci's sleepiness.
Qin Jie… A long-lost name, which caused Chen Enci to be dazed for a moment, as if she was hearing things, "Who?"
"Qin Jie, the one who's been on the trending list every day… Enci, are you listening to me? Were you really with Qin Jie?"
It took several repetitions from Lu Xing before Chen Enci blinked, replying in a somewhat evasive tone, "Yeah, we were together."
Lu Xing on the other end of the phone exploded, "Holy shit! Why didn't you ever mention this to me? When did you two get together? I've known you for so many years, how come I didn't know you ever had a love affair? And, how did you two break up? It can't be like what the netizens are guessing, he dumped you, right?"
Faced with Lu Xing's bombardment of questions, Chen Enci closed her eyes, only answering the last one: "...Yeah, he dumped me."