The Unhinged Tycoon and His Caged Canary

(Unhinged male lead + the heroine suffers early on, then he pursues her desperately + heroine's growth + melodrama)

After a plane crash, Tao Jingyao wakes up back at her own birthday party. She looks at Shao Yuzhi, the future heir of the Shao family, surrounded by admirers, and all she can think of is the bleak ending she suffered in her previous life after this man hurt her deeply.

To outsiders, Shao Yuzhi is gentle and refined. Only Tao Jingyao knows how cold-blooded he really is.

He never loved her. He loved his childhood sweetheart. But by the time she realized this, she had already married Shao Yuzhi. Fortunately, this time she knows the truth ahead of everyone else, so she chooses to stay away from him.

At the banquet, she announces her engagement to someone else in front of everyone, determined to break free of him for good.

Amid the crowd's congratulations, only Shao Yuzhi, her uncle in name, watches his smile slowly freeze into an icy glare.

Shao Yuzhi, always accustomed to having everything under control, loses his grip without warning. His prey is about to escape right in front of him.

Once the guests have left, Shao Yuzhi can no longer hold back. He corners her behind a door.

In a low voice, he asks, “Weren't you going to marry me? What's with this little stunt?”

Facing Shao Yuzhi, burning with anger, Tao Jingyao is calmer than she's ever been. “You think dating means we have to bind ourselves together with a piece of paper? I was joking, Mr. Shao.”

He meant to get revenge, but ended up losing his heart. Shao Yuzhi, who has never known hardship in love, finally learns that winning back a woman is harder than reaching the heavens.

P.S. The leads are not blood-related. Their uncle-and-niece relationship was formed later in life.