The Heiress's Game

When Jin Wei first visited Pei Yan's villa on the hillside, she stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window in the living room for a long time, stunned.

She watched as the buildings at the foot of the mountain stretched all the way to Victoria Harbour, and the ships on the sea looked like toy models, moving slowly in the golden sunset.

Pei Yan hugged her from behind, rested his chin on the top of her head, and asked her what she was looking at.

Jin Wei never expected the sea to look like this from such a high place.

That was their third year together.

She has now lived in this villa for seven years and is quite used to the scenery.

Jin Wei is from Yunzhou. Her family is not extremely wealthy, but they are considered respectable.

My father was a middle school teacher, and my mother worked as a bank clerk her whole life.

Their family owns three houses in Yunzhou, and they can go on a trip every winter and summer vacation.

Jin Wei was admitted to Li Qun Chinese University in Dahai City at the age of eighteen. It was the first time she had left Yunzhou and the first time she had seen the sea.

Reading translation has been her childhood dream; she feels she can transform one language into another.

It's amazing that she could still preserve the beauty and charm of the original text. After graduation, she joined a translation company.

Jin Wei and Pei Yan have been together for ten years. Ten years ago, she was a freshman at Liqun University and saw Pei Yan standing next to the side door of the auditorium at the welcome party.

Wearing a faded denim shirt and holding a can of Coke, he stood out from the other guys around him who were wearing trendy brands.

At the time, she didn't know who he was. She just thought that the boy was quiet and had a handsome smile, like the kind of male protagonist she saw in Japanese dramas during her teenage years.

She found out later, and by then she had already fallen in love with him.

Her roommate advised her to think it through, saying that it's not easy to marry into a wealthy family, and that old families like the Pei family value matching social status the most.

She just laughed when she heard that, saying that he had nothing to do with a wealthy family, that he was just an ordinary person who liked to eat wonton noodles and would bite the cap of his pen when reading documents.

My roommate said, "You're such a love-struck fool." She replied, "Yeah, I am."

After they got together, Pei Yan slowly told her about his family.

He said his father was the typical patriarch of a large family: serious, taciturn, and particular about rules.

His mother was a bit more difficult to deal with. She had her own set of standards for her son's marriage, the core of which was just four words: "marry someone of equal social standing."

After listening, Jin Wei remained silent for a while, then looked at him very seriously and said, "It's okay, I'm easy to get along with. Your mother will definitely like me."

Looking into her bright, sparkling eyes, Pei Yan swallowed the words that were about to come out.

Pei Yan has been fighting with her family for years. Jin Wei knows this, but she never asks for details.

Her thinking was simple—if he wanted to tell her, he would naturally do so;

If he doesn't want to talk about it, her asking will only annoy him more.

She just wanted to be the person who would make him happy as soon as he came home.

Every day after get off work, she would go home a little earlier than him, turn the living room lights to the warmest setting, and play light jazz music on the stereo.

Hearing the sound of the keypad lock opening, she jumped up from the sofa, ran to the entryway, and said with a smile, "You're back!"

Every time Pei Yan sees her smiling face, his shoulders, which have been tense all day, relax.

He said she was his safe haven. She felt that those words were more effective than any promise.

Jin Wei is a person who believes in love to the point of being obsessive.

She grew up reading Jane Austen and believes that sincere and kind people will eventually be happy, and that people who love each other will eventually be together no matter how many twists and turns they go through.

She even felt that Pei's parents' opposition didn't matter; it was just a small test in their relationship.

One day, when Pei Yan's parents truly understand her and see how much she loves their son and how much effort she puts into this relationship, they will definitely accept her.

She did nothing wrong, Pei Yan did nothing wrong, so what's wrong with love?

As long as love exists, all difficulties are temporary, and all efforts are meaningful.

Jin Wei was unaware that Madam Pei had secretly arranged several blind dates for Pei Yan, nor did she know that every time Pei Yan returned to the Pei family's old residence for a meal, it felt like going to war.

Jin Wei simply lived quietly in that villa halfway up the mountain, drinking a cup of coffee in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows every morning and watching the city below wake up.

On her way home from get off work, she would buy some fresh fruit at the market and occasionally squat down at a flower stall to pick out a bunch of daisies, which she would then put in a glass vase on the dining table to bring the whole house to life.

If someone asks her what her boyfriend does, she just smiles and says he works in finance, then changes the subject.

Love is between her and Pei Yan; there's no need to put it in the spotlight.

She doesn't need anyone's envy or approval.

As long as Pei Yan can hug her with a smile every day when he comes home, she feels that these past ten years have been worthwhile, and that many more decades to come will also be worthwhile.