Chapter 1: Returning to Campus (1/2)

In Huaxia.

On the bustling streets of a northern county town.

A middle-aged man with a pale face leaned back in the luxurious rear seat of a Rolls-Royce, his eyes lifelessly staring at the starry sky above, as if reminiscing about something.

“Mr. Zhao Qingfeng, you are very weak now. Do you want to fly back overseas and think of a solution?” asked the private doctor sitting in the front seat, his words filled with consolation as he turned his head back respectfully.

“No need. The cancer cells have already spread. At this point, I no longer believe in miracles…” Zhao Qingfeng said with a bitter smile, his expression calm as he looked towards his lawyer who had just hung up the phone.

“Mr. Zhao, everything has been arranged as per your instructions. The assets of the corporation, worth hundreds of billions, have all been donated to the Huaxia scientific research institutions. You can sign now,” the lawyer said, opening the laptop.

Zhao Qingfeng signed the electronic signature without hesitation and then slowly closed his eyes, sighing deeply.

This scene.

Made both the lawyer and the private doctor furrow their brows in sorrow.

They knew not only that Zhao Qingfeng was a globally renowned tech mogul with a fortune worth more than a hundred billion.

But also that at the late stage of his cancer, he had been betrayed by his beloved wife.

Just a week ago.

Zhao Qingfeng’s wife, Liu Ruoxin, after learning that he had only a month to live, actually took him to court herself.

She demanded that all the technological patents and properties under his name be transferred to her.

Thirteen years of marriage.

They had thought they could go all the way to the end.

But at the last moment.

The woman he had always deeply loved suddenly changed, intending to swallow all his properties.

All her feelings were fake.

Everything was just for her interest.

But.

That was not the most heartbreaking reason for Zhao Qingfeng.

Even more cruel was the phone recording collected by the lawyer.

Zhao Qingfeng pressed the play button.

The cold voice of Liu Ruoxin talking to some man came through the Bluetooth earpiece again.

“Zhao Qingfeng? Haha, I never loved him.”

“Choosing to be with him was only because my father valued his talent.”

“If I hadn’t followed my father’s advice at that time, insisting on adding my name, Liu Ruoxin, to the articles published in authoritative magazines, how could I have gone abroad for further studies?”

“It’s ridiculous. This poor guy doesn’t know that the reason he got cancer is because of the chronic poison I’ve been administering over the years.”

“His parents died many years ago. Once he’s gone, all his property will belong to us.”

“Dear, you’ve endured so much for so many years, you should be rewarded. The person I truly love has always been always you…”

What is so thin to me in the vast heavens?

Twenty years in business.

A fortune worth over a hundred billion.

In the end, he didn’t even have true love.

But.

Everything is going to end now.

Now, he has only one last wish unfulfilled.

That is to see his childhood sweetheart, Shen Lingyao.

To ask her why she has not been willing to meet him in these twenty years, apart from writing letters, not even accepting video calls.

Ten minutes later.

The Rolls-Royce stopped at the entrance of a beer factory’s family building in the eastern suburbs of the small county town.

A high school boy riding a bicycle with a girl, their laughter and teasing sounds, also brought Zhao Qingfeng’s memories back to twenty years ago.

“They’re just like we used to be…”

“Her child should be this big by now…”

“I still don’t know what her husband looks like…”

He sighed softly.

Images of the times Zhao Qingfeng spent with Shen Lingyao appeared in his mind.

Climbing over big walls together, catching bugs, raiding bird nests.

Being beaten by family members for bathing in the wild together, being twisted by the thigh for bullying the big goose, teasing the big yellow dog, and being chased around.

Going to school.

Coming home from school.

Playing hide-and-seek.

Riding the sow.

The shared, innocent growth over more than a decade, day after day of laughter and teasing, made them not just childhood sweethearts but also the most familiar people to each other.

TL: And here is Chapter 1.1 of After Being Rejected, I Brought the Cute School Beauty Home to Be My Wife! I quite liked the raw of this novel, and I hope you guys like the translation as well! ^_^

PS. The chapter splits are from the raws I’m using 🙁