[Powerful tycoon who bends over backward for love & sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside web novelist]
[Five-year age gap // winning his wife back after a painful breakup]
(The heroine is rather weak at first. Please bear with her if that's not to your taste.)
Ye Xiangyu thought Xie Jingnian was different.
To the rich and powerful, she was nothing but a low-class gold-digger, willing to do anything to climb the social ladder.
Grateful to the person who had supported her, she thought Xie Jingnian was different from the rest.
In her eyes, he was humble and distinguished.
But one conversation made her give up that idea for good.
Inside a private room: “Come on, Jingnian. You were just fooling around with that low-class girl. How did you end up taking her seriously?”
The voice paused for a moment, then continued. “But what about Yiyi? Are you really going to give up on her? I say you should dump that low-class girl as soon as possible. Even if you're serious, given her circumstances, she might not take you seriously anyway.”
Ye Xiangyu thought he would speak up for her, but his long silence shattered that foolish hope.
Of course. They had never been from the same world.
After standing there for so long, she swayed. It felt as if something had exploded in her head. She could no longer hear what was going on around her, only stare blankly through the crack in the door at what was happening inside.
In that moment, she understood.
Xie Jingnian was just like them, born into a world of privilege.
People of that “higher class” would never give those beneath them a second glance.
And he was simply better at pretending than the rest.
But... she wasn't so bad herself.
