Fine, Let’s Break Up. You’re the One Who Didn’t Want Me First

Wen Xi × Tan Jibai

Cool and devoted × adaptable and resilient

Rehabilitation physician × fourth-year college student and entrepreneur

Illegitimate daughter × second young master

Both pure, happy ending, bittersweet romance, younger male lead, four-year age gap, a little mutual healing

[This is probably a melodramatic story where a misunderstanding makes me fall for you, but then you stop loving me (not really), and once the misunderstanding is cleared up, you still love me, but I’m engaged (also not really).]

On their thirtieth day of dating, Tan Jibai and Wen Xi break up.

Tan Jibai discovers that Wen Xi has someone she’s always loved.

That person is his eldest brother.

Tan Jibai decides to let Wen Xi go.

Later, the misunderstanding is cleared up.

But Wen Xi is getting engaged.

She wants him to be her lover.

*

Flashbacks:

Two years earlier, Wen Xi had said to Tan Jibai, “I can date you for a while. During that time, I’ll let you fall for someone else.”

She was tolerant and easygoing, yet cold.

Tan Jibai agreed.

Later, he asked, “Do you love me?”

“Don’t be unreasonable.”

*

After Wen Xi “played a part” in a plot against him, Tan Jibai was left to die in the sea, while Wen Xi went abroad to study as an exchange student.

When they meet again a year later, Tan Jibai looks at her calmly and distantly.

[I’ve gone to her again and again, hoping she’ll love me just a little more.]

[As a doctor, Wen Xi struggled and tried to run away, but she still couldn’t stop herself from falling in love with her patient.]

[They first meet as a rehabilitation physician and a patient with cognitive impairment. There’s a little doting-husband fiction, so proceed with caution if that’s not your thing!]