[Mutual First Love + Baby on the Way + Returning with a Child + Reunion After Years Apart + Uncle + Secret Crush + Five-Year Age Gap + Powerful Man Bows to Love]
The year her mother died, Shi Yuan met Third Master Lu, a powerful figure who ruled the capital’s elite circles, by the riverside.
A fallen heiress who had never been loved, she was captivated the moment she saw him.
They said women who got close to him met terrible ends. If they crossed him, death was the easy way out.
Shi Yuan didn’t believe it. After all those years by his side, surely even a stone would have warmed up by now.
Later, when Lu Yanchu was told to enter a political marriage, she went to ask him, “Is there someone you like?”
His gaze was firm, his eyes full of joy. “Yes. I like her very much.”
She thought that if she couldn’t have him, at least sleeping with him once wouldn’t be a loss. She would leave as soon as it was over.
…
After she left, he locked himself in his room and drank until he suffered gastric bleeding. The red cord around his wrist was his most sensitive vulnerability: no one could mention it or touch it.
By day, he searched everywhere for her. At night, he confessed his sins to empty air.
Then, four years later, he heard news of her. Shi Yuan had returned with a child.
His eyes reddened, and he could barely hold back his feelings.
…
In front of the guests, her stepmother promised her to her father’s business partner, a balding man nearing fifty. “You’ve got a bastard in tow and still think you can be choosy?”
As her stepsister grabbed her by the hair and forced her to sign the marriage contract, Lu Yanchu kicked open the banquet hall doors. Holding the child, he shielded her behind him. “You dare lay a hand on someone who belongs to me, Lu Yanchu?”
“I want both her and the child.”
Everyone in the capital’s elite circles thought Third Master Lu had become a fool for raising another man’s child, and that the marriage wouldn’t last long.
Later, a paparazzo caught the once-arrogant Third Master Lu kneeling in front of a woman, gently pleading, “Yuanyuan, I was wrong. Please don’t let Youyou and you turn your backs on me.”
