The Price of an Unrequited love Is 30,000 Yuan

At twenty-seven, Gu Siqiao discovered that his long-abandoned QQ account, which he hadn’t used in ten years, had been hacked. The hacker used Gu Siqiao’s account to message every old classmate on his contact list, asking to borrow money. Fortunately, the scam was so outdated that almost nobody fell for it. Except Xue Lou. They had never been close back then, and they hadn’t been in touch since. Xue Lou was merely a high school classmate Gu Siqiao had kept on his contact list without ever speaking to him. Yet, without the slightest hesitation, he transferred 30,000 yuan to the CEO of Shichuang Group, who claimed he couldn’t afford his surgery fees. …What an idiot. Staring at the message notification, Gu Siqiao took a long time to remember who Xue Lou was. He seemed to recall seeing a poor student sitting in the front row of the neighboring elite class through a crack in the classroom door while he was being punished to stand in the hallway during high school. Bored out of his mind in the corridor, Gu Siqiao had liked staring absentmindedly at that handsome face through the narrow gap. It wasn’t as if Xue Lou would lose a piece of flesh just because Gu Siqiao used him to kill time while he listened attentively to the teacher, his eyes fixed on the blackboard. After making a few inquiries through mutual acquaintances, Gu Siqiao learned that the top scorer in the college entrance examination that year was now struggling to find even a stable place to live because his family had fallen deeply into debt. What a mess. Gu Siqiao’s nearly extinct conscience finally stirred. Since the other man had been so selfless, he ought to show a little generosity himself. So Gu Siqiao called Xue Lou, intending to tell him that his company was recruiting an executive secretary. * At seventeen, Xue Lou had fought tooth and nail to become the top student in his grade, all so he could sit in the front row near the door and catch glimpses of Gu Siqiao’s white shirt through the crack with the corner of his eye. At twenty-seven, a long-forgotten message cost Xue Lou his last bit of savings. Yet, by a stroke of misfortune that turned into a blessing, it also gave him the chance to exchange a few brief, inconsequential words with Gu Siqiao. Xue Lou thought that was all the interaction fate had in store for them in this lifetime. Until that day, when his phone rang. The caller ID read: Gu Siqiao, Jiangcheng No. 1 High School. * “You stand on the bridge, watching the scenery; the person watching the scenery stands upstairs, watching you.” — Bian Zhilin, Fragment — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Price of an Unrequited love Is 30,000 Yuan — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠