Possessive Love: Mr. Xie's Runaway Darling

[Scheming CEO + childhood friends + haughty heiress + runaway bride] On the night of her engagement, Song Lingxi smashes her phone and runs away from her wedding in the middle of the night. She would rather die than marry Xie Qinghan, the controlling childhood friend who used to tattle on her and sabotage her romances. She hides overseas and becomes a junior designer, only to run into the CEO himself during an interview at her new company. His gaze is deep behind his gold-rimmed glasses. “Miss Song, running away from your betrothal gifts looks a lot like skipping class back then.” Only later does she find out: His secret study is filled with three thousand photos of her, from her tear-streaked face at age five to last night’s sleepless one. Her twenty years of diaries are pinned to the top of his phone, and he knows every detail, including which upperclassman she once had a crush on. Even the candy factory she once idly said she wanted to open has been registered in Switzerland under her name by him. “Xie Qinghan, are you a pervert?” Her eyes redden. He kisses away her tears and chuckles. “Yes, but only for you.” Just as she finally falls for him, she overhears him telling his elders, “I’m marrying her to take over the Song family.” She disappears while pregnant, and he spends the whole night kneeling in the pouring rain. “The company, the Xie family, even my life, you can have them all. Please, don’t give up on me.” Years later, the financial headlines declare that the greatest achievement of the Xie family’s head was spending twenty years getting the runaway bride to say “I do” of her own free will.