Chapter 1

After persuading my best friend to break up eight hundred times, I finally received her wedding invitation.

When I heard the news, I let out a cold laugh, my heart as calm as still water-like a consort gone mad in the cold palace.

As Li Qingyi’s childhood best friend, the one who grew up wearing the same pair of pants as her, I still came to her wedding-as her bridesmaid.

I gave her a big red envelope and bought her a wedding gift.

On this joyous day, I couldn’t bring myself to smile.

In the end, my best friend worriedly said, “Yuanyuan, if you can’t smile, then don’t. You look cool with a cold face too.”

“…”

Although my best friend is hopelessly in love, she’s marrying into the A9 Family, has a Jing City Hukou, and still loves me just the same.

I endured it.

It wasn’t until the wedding party arrived that I noticed one of the groomsmen looked even more sour-faced than I did.

He seemed very much against this marriage.

But he was handsome.

His almond-shaped eyes were striking, a black stud in his left earlobe, his features sharp and defined-the kind of man who’s both roguish and charming.

Wearing a suit, he gave off another kind of vibe.

One of the bridesmaids noticed this groomsman and quietly asked the bride who he was.

From the bride’s lips, I heard a name that had echoed in my ears for years: Zhou Yanming.

Just as I am Li Qingyi’s best friend, this Zhou Yanming, the groomsman, is said to be the groom Xu Shaoting’s childhood friend.

For a long time, I hated this man I’d never met-almost as much as I hated Xu Shaoting.

Because every time I thought these two would finally cut ties for good, that damned Zhou Yanming would always make a move for his good buddy, and then that dog Xu Shaoting would win my best friend back again.

He’s clearly a great strategist-wasn’t this scene today exactly what he wanted?

So why the sour face?

Trying to provoke me?