Hold Me by the Waist! Mr. Lu’s Obsessive, Uncontrollable Love

Ten-year age gap | All-consuming possessiveness | Marriage first, love later

Shanghai heiress from a powerful family × CEO who rose from humble beginnings

Ning Zhiyou had been secretly in love with Lu Linhan for five years. From the girl who quietly sat in on his classes to the composed young lady of the Ning family she became, she had always watched him from afar: a cold, abstinent man who had clawed his way up from the bottom. She thought her feelings would eventually fade away without a sound.

An accident sent her tumbling into his arms after someone set him up, and one reckless night changed the course of two lives that should have continued on parallel paths.

For the first time in his life, the usually calm and restrained Lu Linhan experienced a loss of control. Taking responsibility as his bottom line, he handed her a marriage agreement. His voice was indifferent, yet left no room for refusal: “Marry me. I’ll cherish you, protect you, and give you everything, but don’t fall in love with me.”

She knew their relationship began with a sense of duty and would end in restraint, yet she still agreed to take the leap, clinging to the feelings she had carried since she was young.

After they married, she remained quiet and composed, leaving a light on for him late at night and stepping forward in times of danger. Her tenderness slowly drew her closer to the ice around his heart.

He knew nothing of love. All he knew was how to keep her close through forcefulness and possession, hiding every ounce of worry and affection behind an unyielding need to protect her.

She neither complained nor fought, but quietly waited in her heart: for him to understand his own feelings, and for him to admit the love he had kept hidden beneath all that restraint.