[Both leads are devoted to each other + the man regrets it and tries desperately to win her back]
Xue Manzhi was Shao Jingyao's secret lover for a year, until one day he dumped her.
Shao Jingyao spoke coldly, without a trace of affection. "Here's a check. Get out of my sight."
It turned out that Shao Jingyao's first love, who had been abroad recovering from an illness, had returned.
Xue Manzhi had always known she was just a substitute, but she couldn't bear to leave like this.
She had truly fallen in love with this elegant, refined man.
She tried seduction, begged on her knees, and even pretended to be pregnant. She did everything she could to keep him.
Xue Manzhi threw away her pride and pleaded with him. "You can marry her. I don't need a title or money. I only ask that you come see me when you're bored."
But Shao Jingyao remained unmoved.
After a painful, drawn-out struggle, Xue Manzhi's heart finally turned cold, and she left, wounded.
But Shao Jingyao knelt before her, reverently taking her hand and pressing it to his face.
"Manman, please, don't leave me."
"I won't."
Xue Manzhi wanted to watch a god fall from grace, to see him sink into the dust just as she had, begging for no more than a single indifferent glance from her.
