I Became the Scheming Ex-Wife of the Male Lead's Powerful Adoptive Father

[Marriage first, love later / the powerful one bows his head / age gap / two scheming powerhouses fall for each other / the second male lead’s quest to win her back] Her sweet, adorable daughter is sent to an orphanage and beaten until she’s covered in blood. Only then does Lin Yunjin, now a wandering spirit, awaken and realize she is the cannon-fodder female supporting character in a book. In the blink of an eye, she returns to five years earlier, to the moment when, embittered by love, she becomes a stepmother and marries the male lead’s powerful adoptive father. What handsome young man? After a feast of seafood, why settle for a dog’s leftovers? What about adoptive parents and birth parents who don’t cherish her? With immense wealth in her hands, that’s what real parents look like. But the only one who throws a wrench into her plans is the male lead’s adoptive father, a business magnate. “Hey, where are you touching?” All she wants is the right pH balance so she can have a daughter with him. She wants nothing else. But why is the powerful man looking at her with more and more tenderness? His gaze is practically melting her. “Don’t you have emotional detachment disorder?” He kisses her collarbone. “Jinjing, you’re my medicine.” - When they first meet, she traces circles on his chest. “He Du, which ‘du’ is the one in your name?” He says nothing. Then one night, he grips her waist and kisses the soft woman beneath him again and again. “Jinjing, let me be the one to ferry you across.” [They are irresistibly drawn to each other, and one touch is all it takes to set them ablaze. Before, they met the right person at the wrong time. Now, at last, they meet the right person at the right time…]