Drowning in Fire, Gazing at Wangshu

Proud, untamed rose x unhinged white moonlight [Second-chance romance + one-on-one + reunion after years apart + both leads are sexually inexperienced and emotionally devoted + the secondary couple isn't mutually devoted, so feel free to skip their scenes] At seventeen, Jiang Wangshu was the wildest rose at Huaicheng No. 1 High School. She dared to cut three inches off her uniform skirt and talk back to her teachers in front of everyone. Only around Qu Huaiji did she put away her thorns and lay her heart bare before him. On a stormy night, she curled up in a phone booth and called him seventeen times, but the only one who showed up was Xu Heqing, holding out an umbrella. “Come with me. I can help you.” Ten years later, they meet again. She is the sharpest beauty in Haixin Group, while he is the stone-faced Buddha who has carved his way through the business world in Huaijiang. At their school reunion, she wears a backless black dress, still every bit as proud. “President Qu, would one night together be enough to secure a partnership?” He grips the back of her neck and sneers. “Jiang Wangshu, is using men still all you know how to do?” But no one knows that he keeps a photo of her at seventeen in his suit pocket, and his lock-screen password is her birthday. Later, the financial headlines explode: Huaijiang's CEO takes a drink meant for his sworn enemy late at night, then wraps his suit around her backless dress, possessiveness surging in his eyes. When reporters ask about their relationship, he loosens his tie and kisses her scar in front of everyone. “My fiancée. We settled that ten years ago.” That night, eyes red, he bites her ear. “Jiang Wangshu, I've hated you for ten years. But if I could do it all over again...” “I'd still be the dog you were waiting for in the rain.”