Stop Torturing Me, Lord Zhou. Miss Ruan Is Running Away

[Reunion after years apart + rekindled love + starts with their reunion] [Once a soldier, now a proud and roguish heir + a clear-eyed, stubborn beauty + both are sexually inexperienced + sweet and angsty] After Ruan Jiu helped Mu Chen, the younger brother of her first love, escape an attack by local thugs, the thugs began targeting her instead. To get out of trouble, she deliberately seduced Zhou Shizheng, a man from a powerful family. After Zhou Shizheng fell in love with her, Ruan Jiu cruelly broke up with him. - Five years later, Ruan Jiu returned from Africa and ran into Zhou Shizheng in an elevator. They exchanged cold, silent looks. Later, Ruan Jiu turned to Zhou Shizheng for help to get a kidney. Zhou Shizheng curled his lip disdainfully. “Take it off.” He gripped Ruan Jiu’s slender waist coldly. “You’d better make him interested in you.” “Otherwise, you’re no better than trash to me, completely useless.” She accepted his terms and did whatever he told her to do. Until he got tired of her. - Later, Zhou Shizheng saw the scar hidden beneath her watch. His eyes reddened as he gripped her wrist. “What’s this?” [Chapters 1–56 focus on their reunion; from Chapter 57 onward, the story switches to the first time the leads met; the later chapters return to their reunion and continue through the ending.]