Name: Claimed as My Own
Author: Woven Green Gardenia

Synopsis

Cold-hearted playboy and clear-eyed, innocent college girl

[Powerful families + star-crossed lovers + powerful man loses his composure + groveling to win her back]

1. The day Xin Yao met Jiang Linqian, she was at a funeral home.

A funeral for an important figure was being held in the east hall. Jiang Linqian stood behind his father, looking weary.

The guests who had come to pay their respects whispered behind his back. “The Jiang family's second son really is a spoiled playboy. His own grandfather died and he didn't even cry. He's only lucky he was born into the Jiang family.”

“So he's the second son. Where's the eldest?”

“Dead.”

“Did the second son curse him to death?” Their voices brimmed with mockery and malice.

From behind a pillar, Xin Yao said quietly, “Jiang Linqian, why did you come out?”

The two guests hurried away in a panic.

Xin Yao gave a faint smile. When she turned around, Jiang Linqian was standing right behind her.

“You know me?”

“No.”

Jiang Linqian stepped forward. “Now you do.”

Their meeting was an accident, but it was also deliberate.

2. After two years together, Xin Yao asked if he would marry her. His answer was, “No one can force me to do anything. Not even you.”

He made it perfectly clear: “Xin Yao, I will never get married.”

3. In their fourth year together, Xin Yao asked to break up.

“Are you getting married?”

“Yeah.”

She said, “Jiang Linqian, this is as far as I'll go with you. I won't invite you to the wedding.”

4. Later, the playboy who had never cried shed the first tear of his life for her, holding out a ring as he begged her to marry him instead.

“The ring, me, everything: I'll give it all to you. Xin Yao, what more could you want?”

“Yao Yao, love me one more time.”

“Please.”

The cold-hearted man fell for a young woman. His friend Rui Ping summed it up: “The birdcatcher got pecked in the eye by his own hawk.”

Stats

162Chapters

708Reads · 30 days

37.3kReads · all time

113Shelf adds, last 14 days

5.9Score

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