When Our Engagement Ends, Don't Love Me Out of Guilt

[A clear-headed heroine who refuses to waste energy on needless drama × an obsessive, unhinged CEO who chases his wife|Anniversary breakup|The husband chases his wife into the crematorium|Forgiveness is never easy|An open-ended push and pull]

On their first wedding anniversary, Guo Yutong receives no gift from her husband. Instead, she gets a document bearing his signature that freezes the Guo family’s last remaining working capital.

For a whole year, she has swallowed every cold look, every scheme, and every indignity as he favored his white moonlight. At a banquet, she presents the original contract, recordings from the entire year, and a copy of the fund-freeze notice in front of everyone. Then she drops the divorce papers and walks away. The room erupts. For the first time, the man who has always stood above everyone else panics.

She thinks divorce will be the end, not knowing it will mark the beginning of his long regret.

Giving up trillion-yuan contracts, surrendering his shares piece by piece, apologizing in public, forfeiting his inheritance... Lu Chen strips away his pride layer by layer before he finally understands that money and power can never fill the hole he dug with his own hands.

“Could you give me a chance to pursue you like an ordinary person?”

“Then give it a try. This time, there’s no contract and no ulterior motive.”

“The choice has always been mine.”