[One-on-One, Both Leads Are Each Other's First, Happy Ending] [Forbidden Love] [Mutual Pining] [A Powerful, Abstinent Man] [Intense Push and Pull] [He Grovels to Win Her Back] [He Turns Dark for Love] [Age Gap] [Rekindled Love]
She is the forbidden moonlight he has kept at a distance for seven years, the cinnabar mark on his heart he doesn't dare touch.
He is the man she has secretly longed for over seven years, the chaste god she has looked up to for half her life!
She works desperately to grow into someone worthy of him.
To protect her, he steps outside his comfort zone and tears off his gentle mask, awakening his predatory instincts. He grows from a teacher who educates students into the person in charge at the school, then rises to become a mighty business tycoon with immense influence in both the legitimate and criminal worlds!
Caught between their teacher-student relationship, differences in status, family opposition, and one misunderstanding after another, she loses all hope and turns to accept someone else's love!
She thinks they can part ways for good and each live a peaceful life. But she doesn't know that the aloof, refined man, as cold as a Buddha, has become obsessed with her to the point of madness. Through schemes and open rivalry, he lays an inescapable net, all to bring her back into his arms.
Only when he lures her into that villa and she sees the decor inside and the photographs covering the rooms does she finally understand: he never left.
He wraps his arms tightly around her from behind, his voice breaking and trembling. "Yueyue, you are my sanctuary, and you're my hell, too. From now on, no one is taking you away from me."
From campus to the city, from restrained longing to an intense push and pull, this mutual pining that has lasted seven years will finally reach its happy ending, all in the name of love.
Content warning: The female lead is very much under her husband's thumb at first, but gradually grows stronger. The male lead is highly possessive and controlling, though he says he'll change...
