[Five-Year Age Gap + Quiet Everyday Life + Sweet Romance + Slow Burn + Career + Multiple Couples + Female Rivalry (Careers) and Male Rivalry (Romance) + Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within]
When Ling Wanqing was young, she saw Ming Lan at the height of his confidence, pouring all his most sincere and passionate love into another girl. She had always envied that girl for winning his truest, most passionate love.
The eldest of the Ming family’s generation, Ming Yi, gave up a political career to go into business. The youngest daughter, Ming Xi, defied her family’s wishes and resolutely abandoned medicine for entertainment. That left only the second son, Ming Lan, whose political career flourished as he rose to become the Foreign Ministry’s most outstanding diplomat.
While basking in the sweetness of love, Ling Wanqing happened to learn that Ming Lan’s former lover had returned to the country and joined the Foreign Ministry.
They were a match made in heaven. Ling Wanqing had always known he was someone she could only dream of having.
On impulse, she sent him a breakup text, blocked him, deleted his contact, and went on a variety show.
She never expected that the man who had been accompanying a foreign delegation just a few days earlier would show up at her door. He even caught her spending time with the senior who had helped her at university. As if catching her with that senior wasn’t enough, he also found out she and her ex-boyfriend had appeared together on a dating show.
“Wanwan, don’t you have an explanation for me?”
“You want an explanation? I’m tired of you. You’re not all that, so I dumped you.”
“Is that so? Then who was the one crying out in pleasure in my bed?”
Hearing him say something so unfiltered left Ling Wanqing stunned. Was this really the same Second Brother Ming she remembered, so disciplined, courteous, and noble?
Seeing the look on Ming Lan’s face, as if he were about to devour her, Ling Wanqing knew she was totally screwed.
Every man who got even a little too close to Ling Wanqing made Ming Lan wildly jealous, from her ex-boyfriend and her talkative partner on the dating show to her female rival. Even her own eldest brother and Ling Wanqing had kept him misunderstanding things for a long time.
