[Reunion after years apart | Rekindled romance | Two powerful rivals fight for her | Going mad for love]
Su Wanning regrets one thing more than anything else in her life: wandering into a professor’s lounge after a dinner party.
After one wild night, she fled with a bedsheet wrapped around her
She’d slept with the wrong man.
And that man was none other than Shen Yanzhi, the famous, ascetic scholar who had been Zhao Runzhi’s sworn rival in business for years.
Cool and refined, so unattainable that his admirers could circle the campus three times.
Su Wanning wanted to pretend nothing had happened, but a few days later, at an academic seminar, he cornered her behind the podium.
His eyes dark, his voice husky, the man asked, “Why are you running?”
“Can we pretend nothing happened…? Can you just let me go?”
Before she could finish, he grabbed the back of her head and kissed her fiercely, his self-control gone. Pressing against her, he rasped, “No. Stay with me. Please?”
Zhao Runzhi was a rising star in the business world, ruthless in his methods and feared by everyone.
When he married Su Wanning, he thought she was a docile little bird. He never imagined that in her heart stood a fortress no one else could breach.
The night he realized something was wrong, he gripped her waist, his eyes bloodshot. “Wanning, haven’t I treated you well?”
“Why are you looking at him?”
“Why did you let him touch you?”
He smiled, gentle yet dangerously unhinged, and said each word slowly: “If you want to divorce me and be with him, you’ll have to kill me first.”
Two men, each a king in his own domain.
For her, Shen Yanzhi descended from his pedestal. His cool exterior shattered, revealing an obsessive possessiveness. “Letting you go four years ago was the biggest regret of my life. This time, if you choose him, I’ll take you from him.”
For her, Zhao Runzhi tore away his polished facade, going from calm and composed to