Done with Just Friends. Ready for All In

Cheng Xia and Chen Shechuan grew up together and have been living around each other for seven years, close enough that everyone assumes and neither says. She has been in love with him the whole time. Then they get drunk and kiss, and afterward he tells her they are good friends and nothing else. The reason he gives is not the real one. His parents' marriage came apart and he has stayed clear of anything that could turn into the same thing. To make sure she stops waiting, he produces a girlfriend, Jiang Yining, and introduces her when the Cheng family comes by, and he arranges a blind date for Cheng Xia with an arrogant man, framing it as something he is doing for her benefit. She takes all of it and decides she is done with seven years of never being told anything straight. Around then Xu Jingdeng, someone she knew as a child, comes back into her life and courts her openly and gently, and she starts letting him in. Chen Shechuan turns up again wanting her back, and she is standing between the two of them with her own work and her own life to sort out as well.