Crushing in Silence

He Lingfei kept Lu Yichen. She came from one of the wealthy families in the city, he was a college student she met by chance, and she liked the youth on him enough to put him on an allowance without thinking twice. He held out for a while, then went along with it and took it for love. The He family went bankrupt in a single night and He Lingfei lost the money and the standing together. She did not want him dragged down with her, and there was her pride left over as well, so she cut him off and disappeared without leaving word. Lu Yichen was still in pieces over it when his own family came for him. He was the Lu heir, the one who had been put out of the house. He went back to that life, dropped the openness he had had as a student, worked in business and turned into a cold sort of boss. At a party some time later he saw He Lingfei across the room and knew her at once.