Demanding Love! After Their Reunion, the Powerful Tycoon Forces Her to Break Up

(Secret mutual pining, both leads’ first love, reunion after years apart, a long-planned romance, pregnancy and a runaway bride from a wealthy family, plus a childhood-sweethearts secondary couple) Shen Liruo lost both her parents when she was young. At twelve, she was sent to stay with a friend of her mother’s, where she met the cold, aloof Xie Yu. People teased her for being Xie Yu’s child bride, saying she was a sparrow who’d become a phoenix. Meanwhile, the aloof young master, surrounded by admirers, leaned against the corridor wall with a crooked smile, seeming to mock her misery. Eight years later, she ran into him again at a dinner with her boyfriend’s friends. After drinking too much, she ended up having an unforgettable encounter with him. The scheming boy of the past had become a powerful figure in Lanzhou, someone who could control the city with one hand. “Shen Liruo, after all these years, you still have terrible taste.” At their second dinner, he cornered her in the restroom and mercilessly criticized her boyfriend. She desperately wanted to get away from him and draw a clear line between them, but he clung to her again, demanding her love without restraint until she was lost in his tenderness. Guilt over her boyfriend tormented her day and night. She never expected that one day she would discover the sordid affair between her boyfriend and her best friend, and suddenly realize that she was the real fool. Xie Yu stood on the steps, still as sharp-tongued as ever. “You idiot. You deserved to be fooled for all those years.” Furious, she lashed back at him. But he seized the chance to pin her down… He said, “You’ll never escape my grasp as long as you live!”