Stingy Tenderness

P.S. The heroine is awful, truly awful. If you’re a heroine stan, this one’s for you!

If you can’t stand feeling sorry for the hero, please don’t leave a bad review. Just move on!

(The second male lead gets the girl. The male lead’s pursuit of his wife ends in total ruin, with not even ashes left!)

(The heroine turns dark and tortures the scumbag to death! First she suffers, then he does!)

1:

Someone once told Ye Shi’an that Fang Cili didn’t love her.

Ye Shi’an didn’t believe it. The affection in his eyes was so obvious.

He was just bad at expressing himself. She trusted him!

Only later did Ye Shi’an find out the truth: he really didn’t love her!

2:

Fang Cili, the illegitimate son of the Fang family, was neglected and looked down on because of his birth. Only Ye Shi’an always reached out to him with a warm smile.

Driven by ambition, Fang Cili deliberately kept Ye Shi’an on the hook, hot and cold by turns. In front of her, he would act vulnerable one moment and miserable the next. He watched as she defended him against the people who bullied him, then used the protection of the Ye family’s heiress to pave his way through high society and secure his place there.

Fang Cili would always look at Ye Shi’an with a faint smile, thinking she was pretty stupid and so easy to fool!

Later, the very Ye Shi’an he thought was stupid and easy to deceive would have Fang Cili begging her with utter humility: “Shi’an, please look at me...”

Unable to have the one he loved, Fang Cili was heartbroken and consumed by grief, nearly driven mad.

Again and again, he humbly prostrated himself at her feet, begging her to turn back, begging her to love him...

But he never managed to win even a shred of her attention!

Scumbag: Fang Cili.

Second male lead gets the girl: Xu Yisheng.