What Rival? This Is My Sweet, Lovably Ruffled Wife

[Fatherly, Taciturn Pursuer + Cold-Faced, Hair-Trigger Beauty + Over-the-Top Melodrama + Love and Hate + Bitter Romance + Bittersweet + Fake Enemies Turned Real Lovers + Mending a Broken Relationship + Realizing It Too Late + Unaware of His Own Feelings]

If hatred were made of bone, then my heart was made by Lu Xingzhi.

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An atypical sworn enemy story about someone who fakes affection and ends up falling into his own trap. (Fist salute)

Fatherly, calculating pursuer x cold-faced, unexpectedly fiery beauty

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If someone had told Zhao Lin four years ago that Lu Xingzhi liked him,

he would have been so disgusted he could have puked up bile.

After all, Lu Xingzhi had always been someone he despised.

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If someone told him he liked Lu Xingzhi too,

he would be stunned.

He would ask, “Why?”

He would ask if they were blind.

But that “if”

has come true today.

Zhao Lin never in a million years thought that Lu Xingzhi, once so high above him, would confess to him one day. And it was the first thing Lu Xingzhi said after waking up from a faint caused by a high fever.

It was hard not to wonder if the fever had fried his brain.

But so what?

Amid the glittering nightlife, Zhao Lin was dead drunk. Lu Xingzhi’s words rang in his ears, while memories flickered through his mind: Lu Xingzhi’s cold face at sixteen, blood running into his eyes, and Lu Xingzhi at twenty, lying pale in a hospital bed as he said he liked him.

Suddenly, Zhao Lin found it ridiculous. He pulled a face and thought absently,

“A confession? Sure.

Let’s talk after I’ve had my fun.”

-From then on, love and hate would last forever, never to fade.

* Not suitable for readers with strong character preferences. There are foreshadowed clues and misunderstandings, all of which will be explained.

* For specific content warnings and more information, see Chapter One.

* If it’s not your thing, please don’t read it. Love you all!

* Romance is the focus, with the plot in a supporting role.

The author has spilled a whole puddle of melodrama.