Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

At six o'clock in the morning, on Jiefang Road Pedestrian Street in Jinghai City.

"Waaaaah... Damn Lu Jingyan! Damn Chinese police!"

Anna swept the floor while wiping away tears, crying so pitifully that her face was streaked with tears.

From childhood to adulthood, she had never even washed a cup herself. Her hands were meant for playing the piano and holding wine glasses; how could she use them to hold such a rough and dirty broom?

"This is hell! The whole of China is bullying me!"

Her so-called "halo of universal attraction" seemed to have completely failed here. The elderly men and women passing by the breakfast stalls, seeing her attire, were not captivated by her beauty as in novels, but instead looked at her with eyes that seemed to regard her as crazy. Some even muttered, "This young girl is so young, why is she dressed so strangely to sweep the floor? Is she out of her mind?"

After sweeping for less than ten minutes, Anna had already developed several clear blisters on her palms.

A sharp pain shot through her, and she could no longer hold back. She threw down the broom, plopped down on the curb, buried her head in her knees, and burst into tears.

"I'm not scanning anymore! Take the points if you want! I'll just abandon my car!"

She cried her heart out, feeling like the most miserable princess in the world. No one cared about her beauty, no one cared about her status; she was like a pitiful creature abandoned in the wilderness.

Just as Anna was crying her heart out, wishing she could just evaporate on the spot.

"Um... are you alright?"

A gentle, clear male voice, tinged with concern, suddenly rang out above her head.

Anna sobbed as she looked up.

Against the faint morning sunlight, she saw a young man in a blue uniform standing in front of her.

The man was clean-cut, not strikingly handsome, but with regular features and a sunny and simple air about him. He wore a name tag around his neck that read "Jinghai City Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau," followed by his name: Wang Lei.

"You...you're here to mock me too?" Anna instinctively shrank back, like a frightened hedgehog, her swollen eyes glaring at him. "Let me tell you, even if I, the princess, am down on my luck, I'm not someone you commoners can just chat up!"

"I didn't mean to laugh at you, I just saw you crying here and it was really heartbreaking."

As he spoke, he took out an unopened bottle of mineral water and a pack of wet wipes from his crossbody bag and handed them to Anna.

"Wash your face and have some water first. Sweeping the streets is really tiring, especially since you're wearing this... well, not very convenient clothes." Wang Lei pointed to her elaborate court dress, his tone devoid of any sarcasm, only sincere advice, "In the future, it's better to wear something more comfortable when you're working."

Anna stared in disbelief at the bottled water and tissues handed to her.

From childhood to adulthood, the men surrounding her were either driven mad by her beauty or fawned over her power. What they offered were priceless jewels, luxury sports cars, or nauseating flattery.

No one ever offered her a two-yuan bottle of mineral water or a pack of ordinary wet wipes just because they saw her crying so hard.

Without the aura of being "obsessed with everything," the man named Wang Lei didn't look at her with that suffocating fervor and greed.

There is only one kind of pure, equal goodwill.

It's like watching an ordinary girl who has encountered difficulties.

"You...you don't recognize me?" Anna asked as if possessed, without even realizing that her tone had lost its previous sharpness and arrogance.

"Yes, I know him."

Wang Lei smiled, revealing two white teeth. "Our bureau received a notice last night saying that a foreign friend was receiving a community service warning on Jiefang Road today, and we were told to be extra careful during our patrols to prevent any accidents."

He crouched down and picked up the large broom that Anna had thrown on the ground with remarkable ease.

"Is this your first time doing this job? You can't hold this kind of big broom like that. You have to use a little skill, otherwise you can easily get your hands blistered."

As Wang Lei spoke, he gripped the broom handle and demonstrated for Anna, "Look, like this, relax your wrists and use the strength of your waist to push forward. Not only will you sweep clean, but you'll also get it done effortlessly."

The morning sun finally broke through the obstruction of the tall buildings and shone on the pedestrian street.

Anna sat on the curb, holding a bottle of slightly cool mineral water in her hand, watching the Chinese urban management officer earnestly teaching her how to sweep the floor.

Sunlight outlined his focused profile, and fine beads of sweat glistened on his forehead. In that instant, Anna's heart, which had been enveloped for twenty years by the aura of Mary Sue and royal privilege, miraculously skipped a beat.

It wasn't the kind of violent trembling you feel when a domineering CEO forcibly takes what's yours.

It was a very subtle, very unfamiliar, yet incredibly real feeling of excitement.

It's like a tender green seedling suddenly sprouting in a long-parched desert.

"Here, you give it a try."

Wang Lei handed the broom to Anna and pointed to the fallen leaves in front of her. "Take your time, follow the method I just taught you. Don't rush. I'll sweep this side for you. We can finish quickly together."

Anna, as if possessed, took the broom.

She stopped complaining and crying. She imitated Wang Lei, clumsily wielding the broom. Although her movements were still somewhat awkward, miraculously, her palms didn't hurt as much as before.

"How's it going? Feeling much better?" Wang Lei encouraged her with a smile as he swept up the trash on the other side.

"Um……"

Anna kept her head down, her voice barely audible. A faint blush had crept onto her fair cheeks.

For the next two hours, a bizarre yet inexplicably harmonious scene unfolded on Jiefang Road Pedestrian Street.

A foreign princess wearing a fluorescent green vest and a long court dress walks side by side with a Chinese city management officer in a blue uniform, chatting and laughing as they sweep up trash on the street.

Anna discovered that although this man named Wang Lei was an ordinary grassroots law enforcement officer, he knew a lot. He knew which breakfast shop had the best steamed buns, which alley's stray cat had recently given birth to kittens, and could even tell her about the city's history and customs in fluent English.

There was no false praise, no affected flattery.

He was like a breath of fresh air, blowing away Anna's outdated notions about "class," "privilege," and "forced love."

As the last fallen leaf was swept into the trash can, Anna looked at the clean street and felt an unprecedented sense of accomplishment.

That was a level of satisfaction she had never experienced as a princess of the Duchy of Slock, despite attending countless lavish banquets and receiving countless rare treasures.

"Well done."

Wang Lei handed her a tissue to wipe her sweat. "Your community service time is over. You've passed."

"Thank you, Wang."

Anna took the tissue and looked at the smiling man in front of her, her heart skipped a beat again. She suddenly felt that compared to those noble young masters who were always obsequious to her, this Chinese city management officer who taught her to sweep the floor and handed her bottled water seemed... much more charming.

At 10 a.m., Lu Jingyan drove his unassuming Audi on his routine patrol of the jurisdiction.

As the car slowly drove through Jiefang Road Pedestrian Street, his gaze inadvertently swept over a pancake stall on the side of the road, and then he suddenly slammed on the brakes.

"squeak--"

Lu Jingyan pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and looked at the unbelievable scene outside the car window, wondering if there was something wrong with his eyes.

The Mary Sue princess Anna, who was arrogant and domineering in front of the police station yesterday, threatening to kill him to pieces, was now wearing that extremely incongruous fluorescent green vest, her face flushed, holding a steaming hot jianbing guozi in her hand.

Standing next to her was a young man in a city management uniform.

Even more outrageous is...

Instead of getting angry, Anna acted like a little girl in love, munching on a jianbing (Chinese crepe) while helping the young city management officer patiently persuade an elderly woman selling roasted sweet potatoes on the street.

"Auntie, this is a public passageway. Your stall is obstructing pedestrians and it's not safe either..."

Anna spoke fluent but slightly accented Chinese, and her tone was surprisingly gentle. Her usually arrogant eyes were now full of sincerity.

"Listen to the king, go set up your stall at the designated spot up ahead, okay?"

The woman was clearly bewildered by this early morning "advice from a foreign guest." After a long pause, she inexplicably nodded and pushed the grill away.

"Well done, Anna." Wang Lei gave her a thumbs up.

Anna's face instantly turned as red as a ripe apple. She lowered her head shyly, but couldn't help but smile.

Lu Jingyan sat in the car, looking at this "world-famous painting," and couldn't help but twitch his lips twice.

What kind of magical realism plot is this?

What should have been a perfect transnational romance with a domineering female CEO forced into marriage by royalty was transformed into "A Foreign Princess's Rural Experience in China" by his two-hundred-yuan fine and a sanitation worker's vest.

They even had a pure, campus romance that transcended class and national boundaries?

Lu Jingyan shook his head and restarted the car.

He felt he needed to go back and reassess whether the "labor reform" at the grassroots level in China had some kind of purifying effect on these high-dimensional protagonists from another world.