Summer Rain: A Tormented Romance

This is a mid-length story about a tragic romance and heartbreaking love. It is titled Summer Rain: A Tragic Romance, and is set in Huaxia. The male lead is Liu Feiyu, the female lead is Xia Keke, the villainous second male lead is Long Huosheng, and the second female lead is Zhang Lili. The male lead is a poor top student and a university classmate of the rich Zhang Lili. They attend Huaxia First University. Xia Keke was the male lead's childhood friend, but they lost contact for more than ten years after an earthquake. The second male lead is a rich heir who is pathologically obsessed with the female lead and enjoys making life difficult for the male lead. The second female lead helps the male lead escape danger time and again. When the male lead encounters the female lead at his university graduation, they recognize each other thanks to a raindrop-shaped jade pendant, a cheap trinket from a street stall of which each of them has one. Their love begins to kindle. Forced by circumstances, the male lead marries the second female lead, and they have a son and a daughter. Because of a misunderstanding, the female lead loses heart. The second male lead rapes and threatens her, leaving her no choice but to marry him. They have no children. The second male lead beats her, and after several miscarriages, she is left unable to conceive. One day, while drunk, he reveals the truth about what happened years ago. The female lead is utterly heartbroken and tries to jump into a river to end her life. By chance, she runs into the male lead, who is taking their two children for a walk by the river. They talk and clear up the misunderstanding. The second female lead dies of an illness. In the end, the second male lead is sent to prison for drunk driving that kills a passerby, as well as commercial fraud, intentional assault, drug use, and other crimes. The female lead divorces him. The male lead and female lead get together. Years of domestic abuse have left her unable to have children, so she and the male lead raise the two children left behind by the second female lead. The second female lead loved the male lead deeply and protected him all along. A diary she left behind reveals the whole truth. There is no high technology, science fiction, time travel, or transmigration.