An Expired Engagement: He Waits Where the Light Fades

She pursued him with such fervor that everyone in Jingbei knew about it.

But he only saw her as a clingy little sister from a prominent family.

Three years ago, he was set up by a woman he was being introduced to for marriage and drugged.

She had admired him for years, so she gave herself to him to serve as his antidote.

When he came to, he agreed to marry her out of a sense of duty and honor.

They shared a warm, tender time together,

but in the end, it was just a beautiful dream that belonged to her alone.

Knowing he didn’t love her, she broke off their engagement and set him free.

Three years later, Song Qingshu saw Shen Ning again at her welcome-home banquet.

At a family dinner, she calmly accepted her family’s marriage arrangement and chose the younger son of the Zhou family from among her options, a notorious playboy in Jingbei.

Beneath the eaves, snow fell thickly as she stood under the roof.

He stood behind her and asked, restraining his emotions, “Why choose the Zhou family? What happened to your boyfriend?”

She drew back her hand without turning around and replied flatly, “We already broke up.”

Then she walked straight out into the snow, disappearing deep into the courtyard.

He stood there, snow and wind piling over him, and never got to see Shen Ning look back at him even once.

A few days later, he saw her again at a friend’s private hot spring.

That playboy from the Zhou family had set off fireworks across the sky just to make her smile.

The young woman still had skin as fair and smooth as porcelain. She gazed up at the brilliant fireworks, smiling radiantly, her bare face lovely and captivating.

His ever-perceptive friend teased him.

“Third Brother, still hung up on your old flame? Can you really bear to watch her marry someone else?”

The man, usually so calm, composed, and gentle, had a slow, consuming desire stirred in his eyes.

Watching all kinds of men gather around her, he lost his self-control.

Amid the hazy steam, he pinned her against the edge of the private hot spring and kissed her passionately.