[The Seven-Year Itch] [Coercive Love] [The Real and Fake Heiresses] [The Wife-Chasing Crematorium]
The heroine, Su Xi, is 29 and due to marry in six months. Looking at their names on the wedding plans beside her, she suddenly feels that the decision to marry was too rushed.
Gu Yan, who has narcissistic personality disorder, sees the heroine as his possession.
Determined to regain her sense of self-worth, she moves out of the villa and decides to live independently.
As Gu Yan watches her slip beyond his control, his true nature gradually emerges. He grows twisted and unstable, ultimately killing the woman he loves with his own hands.
At the hospital,
“She’s dead. Are you satisfied now, Gu Yan?” His friend Yu Yue slaps him across the face, then tells him in a crisp voice, each word slow and clear.
Gu Yan collapses to the floor, devastated. “Let me see her. Just let me look at her one last time.”
His voice is full of pleading. He has never begged anyone in his life.
“Su Xi’s final wish was to never see you again, in this life or the next.” Yu Yue’s voice is quiet, but to Gu Yan, her words ring like a thunderclap.
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A complete reversal: [The heroine makes a powerful comeback] [He chases her, but she wants nothing to do with him] [Older woman and younger man; her current boyfriend is an entertainment industry top-tier star] [Sweet and satisfying in the later chapters]