Love Reduced to Ashes: After the Divorce, Young Master Gong's Fiery Pursuit

Zhao Qina, a real estate agent from the countryside who works herself to the bone in a major city, meets a coworker at the same company: “Xiao Gong,” or Gong Junqi, an ordinary, gentle-looking fellow agent. He hides that he is an heir to a wealthy family to escape their pressure to marry and their plans for an arranged match. She thinks she has met an ordinary man who truly cares for her, someone willing to rent a place and work hard alongside her as they save up to buy a home. As they spend day after day together, they fall in love and secretly register their marriage. There is no wedding, no bride price, and no meeting the parents, just a little red marriage certificate. Yet Zhao Qina feels happier than ever. Then an accident reveals his true identity, and she learns that his family had already chosen a fiancée for him. All his tenderness, companionship, and promises turn in an instant into a carefully planned deception. Zhao Qina doesn’t cry, make a scene, or cling to him. She simply and decisively asks for a divorce. At first, Gong Junqi thinks nothing of it, assuming she’s just throwing a tantrum. Only after signing the divorce papers and watching her disappear from his life for good does he finally realize what he has lost: not just an “ordinary girlfriend,” but the girl who loved and trusted him unconditionally when he was at his lowest, hiding behind a false identity. From then on, the arrogant Young Master Gong casts aside all pride and dignity. Whenever she’s showing properties, taking clients around, working late, being bullied, or facing pressure from his family, he humbles himself and chases after his wife, enduring the ultimate reckoning for his mistakes. As for Zhao Qina, from trusting and loving him wholeheartedly, to being utterly heartbroken, and then rising on her own, she remains clear-eyed and independent throughout: You can hide the truth from me for a while, but you can’t deceive me forever. Once trust is broken, it can never be put back together the way it was.