Li Yuan held Jiang Zhiyu’s hand as they walked along a path at school. Both were silent and very tense, their clasped hands already slick with sweat.

Li Yuan asked, "Little Fish, are you nervous?"

Jiang Zhiyu nodded. "Yes, a bit!"

Li Yuan tentatively inquired, "Then, how about we do this another day?"

Jiang Zhiyu firmly refused, "No, Xia Hua, you’ve already promised me."

Li Yuan was at a loss for words. "Alright then!"

The two continued walking in silence for a while longer before Jiang Zhiyu suddenly asked, "Xia Hua, do you have any dreams?"

"Dreams?" Li Yuan frowned.

Jiang Zhiyu blinked, looking at Li Yuan as she said sweetly, "Yeah, everyone has dreams. I want to know what your dream is, Xia Hua." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

My dream? Li Yuan paused. What were his dreams? In his previous life, his dream had been simple: Bai Weixi. After that dream shattered, his wish was to make a lot of money and buy his own house in Modu. Then, he wanted to find a girlfriend who was better and prettier than Bai Weixi, just to make her regret it... But even at the last moment before his rebirth, there was no chance of that dream coming true. And now, reborn into this life? What was his dream? It seemed to have vanished.

"I don’t know what my dream is, either. Maybe to make lots and lots of money, achieve financial freedom, and buy whatever I want. To live comfortably and make the people I love happy..."

He ruffled Jiang Zhiyu’s hair and asked curiously, "Little Fish, tell me about your dream!"

Jiang Zhiyu pursed her lips, thought for a moment, glanced at Li Yuan, and slowly began to speak.

"Xia Hua, my dream is simple. I want to be with the person I love—and who deeply loves me back—so we can travel across our great country and journey around the world together. I want us to do the things we enjoy, to fly freely, listen to music, sing songs, feel the sea breeze, and bask in the sunlight..."

Li Yuan listened quietly as Jiang Zhiyu described her dream. Given her circumstances, her dream wasn’t far-fetched; in fact, it was well within her grasp. The hardest part, perhaps, was finding a partner who loved her as much as she loved them.

Now, she had chosen him, but he couldn’t be the one to help her fulfill her dream. The course of life is like that; regardless of wealth or poverty, it’s always filled with regrets.

After she finished speaking, Jiang Zhiyu’s bright, sparkling eyes gazed at Li Yuan.

"Xia Hua, can you be with me and help me fulfill my dream?"

Li Yuan couldn’t bear to refuse and nodded gently. "I will!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhiyu was overjoyed and said with a grin, "Hee hee, Xia Hua, you promised me yourself, so you can’t go back on your word!"

"As long as you’re willing, I will always be with you," Li Yuan said, looking seriously at Jiang Zhiyu’s face. "Forever!"

A blush crept onto Jiang Zhiyu’s cheeks, and she gripped Li Yuan’s hand even tighter.

"Yes! I’m willing too!"

A short while later, they arrived at Li Yuan’s BMW X6 parked by the roadside.

This was Jiang Zhiyu’s first time in Li Yuan’s car. Once inside, she sniffed the air, and the smile on her face faded slightly. She had a keen sense of smell and had already guessed that other girls must have been in this car before. It held the unique scents they had left behind.

"Xia Hua, I don’t want to be in the car. Let’s go somewhere else."

Li Yuan felt awkward. He hadn’t said they’d stay in the car, after all. Having their first time in a car would indeed be somewhat inappropriate.

Li Yuan once again asked tentatively, "Little Fish, how about we just stroll around campus instead?"

Jiang Zhiyu huffed. "Xia Hua, why are you so timid today?"

"I’m afraid you’ll regret it in the future!" Li Yuan murmured in reply.

Jiang Zhiyu pouted and urged him, "Hmph, hurry up and drive!"

"Where to?"

"A hotel!"

「A men’s dormitory at Ji University.」

Qin Hao nursed his right hand, which Li Yuan had forcefully squeezed. It throbbed with intense pain, as if the bones had been crushed, rendering it completely powerless.

Suddenly, his phone rang. He quickly answered. It was from an informant he had placed near Jiang Zhiyu.

From the other end of the line, a female voice said, "Mr. Qin, I have bad news."

Qin Hao’s expression turned frantic. "Quick, say it!"

The woman on the phone seemed to hesitate, choosing her words carefully before speaking again.

"Well, Mr. Qin, please don’t be angry when I say this. School Beauty Jiang and that Li Yuan seem to have made up. I saw them kissing on the sports field, and then they left together in a car."

Qin Hao’s eyes bulged as he bellowed, "What? Are you saying Zhiyu made up with that damn scumbag again? And they publicly kissed on the sports field?"

"Yes, many people at our school saw it," the voice on the other end replied, a strange note in her tone.

Nearly everyone at Ji University who paid any attention to campus gossip had heard about how desperately Qin Hao was pursuing Jiang Zhiyu. And now, Jiang Zhiyu was choosing a super-scumbag who was cheating with multiple women over him. The magnitude of this blow was immense, to say the least.

As expected, the furious, hysterical roar of an enraged Qin Hao came through the phone.

"Damn it, Jiang Zhiyu, you bitch! Do you enjoy being so cheap? Do you like sharing a man with other women that much?

"You’ve forced my hand, bitch. I’m going to tell Uncle Jiang about this. I’d like to see how you two dogs handle Uncle Jiang’s wrath..."