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In the middle of the party, Zhu Jinyue had a falling-out with her boyfriend and stormed out of the venue. It was only after stepping outside that she remembered she had come in his car.
The venue was nestled in a secluded location, and the biting winter wind greeted her the moment she left.
Swallowing her pride and going back inside was out of the question. Calling a driver would mean waiting at least half an hour.
Just as she was feeling frustrated, a black Bentley pulled up nearby. The window rolled down, revealing a man in the driver’s seat with refined features and an elegant demeanor.
Zhu Jinyue remembered him sitting beside her boyfriend earlier. She had heard he was the founder of a recently booming tech company and a long-time friend of her boyfriend.
His gaze met hers, and his tone was gentle as he smiled and asked, “Heading down the mountain? Need a ride?”
***
Zhu Jinyue thought Shen Qinghuai seemed gentle and soft-spoken on the surface, but in reality, he was deep and inscrutable—impossible to read. He was like the moon in the clear, cold sky: visible, his light palpable, yet distant and untouchable.
That was until the night she caught her boyfriend kissing his ex-girlfriend—
As Zhu Jinyue stared coldly at the couple embracing in the courtyard below, Shen Qinghuai’s voice sounded beside her.
“Feel like getting back at him?”
His voice still sounded gentle.
“Use me. Treat me as a tool.”
“Do whatever you want.”
***
Back in high school, Zhu Jinyue and Shen Qinghuai had been classmates for a year—not too long, but not too short either.
When they met again, he was her boyfriend’s good friend.
The boy who used to wear faded T-shirts had transformed into the founder of a renowned company, dressed in an understated yet luxurious vicuña wool coat, exuding an air of refined elegance.
Zhu Jinyue had always thought Shen Qinghuai was like the moon in the sky. It was only later that she realized, to Shen Qinghuai, she was the one hanging high in the sky—the unattainable moon.
She had never looked back, so she never knew that someone had spent ten years traversing mountains and rivers, overcoming countless hardships, just to find his way back to her side.
