When She Came, Darkness Turned to Light

Pei Zhou didn’t like me, his fiancée from the countryside.

To make me call off the engagement on my own, he found a poor student at school and had him pretend to be him.

“A nouveau riche bumpkin and a guy so poor he can’t even afford to eat. Perfect match.”

“I bet that upstart won’t last three days before she breaks off the engagement.”

The poor student was tall, aloof, and quietly broken, a man of few words.

I believed it. I thought the Pei family had really gone bankrupt, and that he couldn’t even afford meals.

My dad’s reminder echoed in my ears: “Baby, bankrupt is bankrupt. We’re not the kind of people who look down on the poor and suck up to the rich. We’ve got money. We can support him.”

So when he was hungry, I handed him food. When he worked part-time jobs, I stood guard like his bodyguard. When his mother was hospitalized, I swiped my card…

I took very good care of my down-and-out fiancé.

Until that day, when a beautiful young man snatched away the breakfast I had prepared with such care.

I was just about to lose my temper when he looked at me, unwilling to accept it.

“Lin Wan, look carefully. I’m the one who’s your fiancé-“