The School Heartthrob Who Once Looked Down on Her Now Wants to Marry Her

Xue Nan used to be called Gu Yanbai. But she left that name behind, along with the heartache of having her first love confession rejected, at the high school where her youthful feelings first blossomed. She changed her name to Xue Nan. When she saw Han Ting again, he pinned her against a wall. He didn’t recognize her. “Don’t make a sound.” “Keep struggling, and I can’t promise what I might do.” Eight years apart, and now face-to-face with her first love again, Xue Nan didn’t know what to make of him. How had he ended up as a gangster in the underworld? Before she could process it, he dragged her away at a racetrack to be his temporary racing partner. Back then, people called him “Cheng An,” not Han Ting. He protected her, won the race, and gave her a goose-shaped pendant. “It looks like a bird. Your name is Xue Nan, right? A southern goose. It suits you.” He really didn’t recognize that she was the Gu Yanbai he had once known. The third time they met, he was a criminal investigator, and they were at a blind date. “I’m Han Ting, from the criminal investigation unit. Sorry to keep you waiting.” He really was Han Ting. “Miss Xue, I think we should end our meeting here today.” For the second time in her life, the same man had rejected her. She had practically grown numb to it. But fate seemed to be playing a joke on her. She ran into him again, and on that rainy night, he was waiting specifically for her. “Xue Nan, do you have a moment to talk? There’s something we may need to work on together.” “My grandmother has terminal lung cancer. The doctors say she has at most six months left.” “So I need a wife, in name only.” But before their six-month contract was up, he saw another man by her side. His eyes reddened with anger as he pinned her to the bed. “You’re mine.”