[Unhinged Villainess Fake Heiress X Poor Boy Who Built Himself Up]
[Love and Hate | Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium | Bittersweet]
Zhong Nian has never been poor in her life.
So she’s never understood the phrase “happy even when poor.” How can anyone be happy when they’re poor?
That is, until her identity as a fake heiress is exposed and the Zhong family kicks her out. She moves in with the pretty boy she once humiliated.
An eighty-square-meter apartment, old and run-down. A sick mother, a father hauling bricks, and a son whose business ventures have all failed.
They’re so poor they can barely afford to eat, pinching every penny in half, yet their smiles around the dinner table are utterly genuine.
It’s nothing fancy, just tomato and egg stir-fry, but somehow it tastes like something special to her.
*
Everyone in Wencheng says Zhong Nian is so broke she’s let the pretty boy keep her.
Zhong Nian doesn’t deny it. After all, Jiang Xuqing is domestic, considerate, and great in bed.
She pawns her limited-edition handbag to pay for Jiang’s mother’s treatment, only to hear Jiang Xuqing say coldly, “I won’t fall in love with her. But even a starving camel is bigger than a horse.”
She smiles and walks away.
When the world learns her true identity, everyone trembles and falls to their knees.
The first thing she does upon her return is systematically destroy Jiang Xuqing’s business.
“Even a starving camel is bigger than a horse?”
“But I’ve never been dead.”
*
The road to winning her back is long, with no end in sight.
Again and again, Jiang Xuqing dreams of that stuffy bedroom and the palm-leaf fan that waved all night.
Back then, he’d put on a cold front and insisted he was only after her money, trying to fool himself.
But after pushing his love away with his own hands, he goes mad and risks everything to get her back.
"Note: The male lead suffers early on, and later on too."
