After breaking up with Gu Mingyue, he left Shanghai for Beijing to develop his career, living a life worse than death. So, six months later, he chose to return to Shanghai to find Gu Mingyue. He wanted to have a good talk with her, even if Gu Mingyue couldn't accept him now, he was willing to wait.
He really didn't expect that when he went back to find her again, the answer he got was that she had dropped out of school and was being kept by someone else.
In utter despair, he chose to go to Beijing again, spent four years deepening his studies, and returned to Shanghai, developing his career as a diplomat. He wasn't sure if his parents noticed his emotional problems, but after graduation, they started arranging blind dates for him. It was at one of these matchmaking banquets that he met Zhao Ziyi, simply because out of all the matchmaking candidates, only Zhao Ziyi knew Gu Mingyue, so he chose to date her. During these two years of dating, he was merely settling.
