An early, immature work. Read at your own risk!
[Contract Marriage + Love Grows Over Time + The Wife-Chasing Funeral Pyre + Rekindled Romance]
Lin Chu and Ming Xia signed a two-year contract. At first, their days passed smoothly and uneventfully.
Then Li Shanshan came back: Lin Chu's first love, the one he had never forgotten.
Ming Xia thought she could take the money and leave early, but as time went by, their hearts grew closer.
Li Shanshan had no intention of letting them be together. To hold on to Lin Chu, her long-term meal ticket, she shamelessly passed off the daughter she had with her ex-husband as his.
As it happened, Ming Xia became pregnant around that time, but the baby didn't survive.
They weathered their first relationship crisis.
After returning from a banquet, Li Shanshan fell to her knees and begged them to save the child.
They had a son together.
Unable to bear the deception, Ming Xia gave up on him completely.
A few months later, Ming Xia, who had grown up in an orphanage, found her family.
The older brother who had always been by her side and wanted to protect her.
When she saw Lin Chu again, he had become her sister's fiance.
She discovered Lin Chu was trying to swallow up the Li family. She knew how capable her sister was, and now that her brother was helping, Lin Chu wouldn't stand a chance.
She urged him to stop, but he refused.
Only then did she understand: first and foremost, he was Lin Chu, the Lin Corporation's CEO, a ruthless businessman who had weathered countless ups and downs. Only after that was he her lover.
Just before the Lin Corporation went bankrupt, she begged her brother to spare him.
Years later, she ran into him again at a restaurant.
A little boy beside him called out crisply, "Daddy."
Looking at the boy, she asked, "The child has grown so big?"
He said…
