A pampered young lady from a prestigious family, pampered by her childhood sweetheart, a CEO.

Midway through, Xu Shuli went to the restroom, which was at the end of the corridor, with art paintings on both sides.

She washed her hands and wiped the water droplets off them. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Wu Lina standing next to her, then lowered her eyes again and threw the tissue into the trash can.

They treated her like a complete stranger.

"Xu Shuli!" Wu Lina's heart was already filled with anger. Her feelings for Luo Yunqi were no less than her feelings for Xu Shuli, so why couldn't Luo Yunqi see her existence?

"Is something wrong?"

"What kind of spell did you cast on Luo Yun? Why is it that he only has eyes for you?"

Wu Lina looked heartbroken. "We practically grew up together, why? Why can he only see you..."

"What do you mean by 'we grew up together'?" She abandoned her usual docile demeanor, her smile vanished, and she stared at her intently, a rare sharpness in her eyes.

“Wu Lina, don’t lock yourself into someone who doesn’t love you at all. He and I are only a month apart in age and have known each other for 21 years. Our families know each other very well, our fathers were college classmates, and our elders are close relatives. But you two are just classmates from junior high school to now. How can you say you grew up together?”

"I…"

Wu Lina was speechless, unable to utter a single word. She instinctively wanted to refute but couldn't find a reason to. From a young age, she had been instilled with the idea that she must marry into a good family, and the young master of the powerful Luo family was her ultimate dream.

"But I really like him, so, so much," Wu Lina muttered, completely obsessed. "But I like him so much... why can't he see me? As long as you're here, he'll never see me..."

Xu Shuli's eyes turned cold, her black skirt shimmering with tiny sparkles, and she glanced at Wu Lina with indifferent eyes, carefully observing her every move.

"Xu Shuli... will he be able to see me as long as you're not around?"

Wu Lina suddenly raised her head, her deep gaze sending chills down one's spine. She suddenly grinned, her laughter unsettling, "Don't worry, what day is it today? I certainly won't do anything on a day like this."

Xu Shuli lifted her eyelids, glanced at her calmly, her extremely faint smile vanished, and her voice revealed a faint coldness and authority, "Wu Lina, even if I were to find any excuse right now to have Mr. Wu send you abroad and never return to Beijing, do you think Mr. Wu would agree?"

"You..." Wu Lina's face turned ashen, her hands trembling slightly. "You want to bully others by relying on your power? Aren't you being too arrogant?"

"Do you think this capital city is your Xu family's domain? Don't forget, my father is the vice mayor of this capital city!"

"So what? It's just the Wu family."

Their hearts skipped a beat; that familiar voice…

Xu Shuli had been gone for too long, and Luo Yunqi was both nervous and worried. Seeing Wen Qing being all lovey-dovey with Chen Li, he silently got up and went out to look for her.

Gu Baisheng and Lin Ran raised their eyebrows, clinked their glasses together, and acted freely and unrestrainedly.

He must have just had a drink; his voice was deep, and you could still smell a faint scent of alcohol when he walked quickly to Xu Shuli's side.

Luo Yunqi had taken off his coat and was wearing a restrained black shirt with the cuffs rolled up, revealing his strong and powerful arms. The hem of his shirt was tucked into his dark gray trousers. He had a typical inverted triangle figure with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. His long legs, covered by dark gray fabric, exuded an extraordinary and arrogant air.

Why did you take so long to come out?

Luo Yunqi's gaze softened instantly as he looked Xu Shuli up and down, as if worried that she might be injured somewhere.

"I am fine."

Xu Shuli felt slightly uneasy. If there was nothing wrong, they should still be arguing right now. Why did Luo Yunqi look so calm?

“Luo Yunqi…” Wu Lina’s eyes lit up. The ideas she had been instilled with since childhood, and the first time she saw him, made Luo Yunqi seem to be engraved in her heart, and she could not forget him.

Why do you always ignore me?

Luo Yunqi frowned, his wicked gaze lingering on Wu Lina's face for a moment. "Who do you think you are? Do you think I should remember you?"

Upon hearing this, a strange affection in Wu Lina's heart suddenly shattered, leaving her with a sorrowful expression.

I've always heard that the young master of the Luo family is arrogant and unruly, and now it seems that it's really true.

Despite her heartbreak, Wu Lina still desperately tried to fight back, saying, "Yunqi, when we were in school, didn't you give me a piece of candy? I still have that candy; I haven't been able to bear eating it."

The candy I haven't eaten yet? Won't it expire? Won't it get moldy?

Xu Shuli glanced at Wu Lina subconsciously; her body was surprisingly healthy.

"candy?"

Seeing that he seemed to have some recollection, Wu Lina was even happier and excitedly described the events of that time to him.

The story goes back to junior high school. Back then, Luo Yunqi was a heartthrob. He was handsome, rich, and academically excellent. His homeroom teacher treated him like a hot commodity.

When the scholarship money was distributed, Luo Yunqi felt that his class was always lifeless, so he asked the homeroom teacher to use his scholarship money to buy things that both boys and girls liked at the moment, and then he would distribute them to the students in the class.

Around that time, Xu Shuli always liked a certain brand of fruit candy, so Luo Yunqi mentioned buying more candy. The homeroom teacher mistakenly thought that he really liked candy, and when someone went to buy it, he specifically reminded him to buy more.

That person was none other than class monitor Wu Lina. A beautiful misunderstanding unfolded from there. She distributed the things she bought to her classmates, and she personally handed the candy to Luo Yunqi. She held that box of fruit-flavored hard candy as if it were an imperial seal.

Luo Yunqi was pouring water for his little green plum when he saw Wu Lina coming over with candy. Thinking that the whole box was for him, he couldn't be too stingy, so he casually took one and gave it to Wu Lina, saying thank you. The rest of the box went into Xu Shuli's desk and later ended up in her stomach.

The past events were vivid in her mind. Luo Yunqi's gaze darkened slightly. She hadn't expected that she would remember a piece of candy for so long, and she certainly hadn't expected that she would misunderstand because of it.

Xu Shuli felt a little awkward. The candy she had been eating for a month was actually bought by the other party, who had used it as a way to present it to someone else. However, it was somewhat inappropriate for her to say this at this moment.

"Let bygones be bygones. There's no point in dwelling on the past. I don't like you."

Considering their continued relationship as classmates, Luo Yunqi directly refused, saying, "The person I like has never changed. I only gave you candy out of courtesy. Now, please step aside."

"Just...just etiquette?"

This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to her heart, smashing her heart to pieces.