P.S. Two powerful leads with secret identities: a heroine bent on revenge and focused on her career versus a twisted, love-starved hero whose head is full of romance. The hero gets put through the wringer.
After a transmigrator occupied her body for a year, Jiang Mian, the heiress of a wealthy family, regained control of it. Then, to her utter surprise, she ran into her childhood friend, who should have been dead. Intrigued, she went along with things and married him.
What started as playful teasing gradually gave way to pity. Just as she was about to fall in love with him, she learned that he had orchestrated it all.
Jiang Mian gave a cold laugh and walked away in time, indifferently cutting off every path back to him. You like playing games? Then play by yourself!
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Zhou Yue was the legitimate heir of a wealthy family. After enduring years of abuse that left him frail, he was forced to hide out in Zhongzhou under another person's identity.
The System told him that Jiang Mian, the Jiang family's heiress, was bound to his fate. She was strong where he was weak, and if he could make her take his misfortune upon herself, he would recover his health and avenge himself.
So he obediently married her. After the wedding, he schemed at every turn, all to make her willingly die for him.
But as he cared for her day after day, he gradually lost himself. He began to fear that she might get hurt, wanted to see her every moment, and became insanely jealous whenever someone else showed her kindness.
But no secret stays hidden forever. On the day the truth came out, he fought his way home through bloodshed, only to be told that Jiang Mian was already a widow. He had married her under another person's identity, and in the end that same identity made it impossible for him to stand openly by her side ever again.
He became her secret lover, forced to watch as she married someone else.
Having obtained what he wanted, Zhou Yue was consumed by heartbreak before he finally understood: she had never been the one who needed him. He had always been the one hopelessly in love with her.
