[Gentle and sweet on the outside, strong-willed within x cold on the outside, sly and calculating like an old fox]
[One-on-one, both virgins + marriage before love + six-year age gap + second male lead desperately pursues his ex-wife + sweet romance + true and fake heiresses]
After knowing Song Jingyan for eight years and loving him for one, Meng Lingyi thought she was the cure that would make the prodigal Song Jingyan mend his ways.
But when her grandmother fell seriously ill and Meng wanted to marry to ease the old woman's regrets, Song Jingyan looked down at her with scorn. "Marriage? Absolutely not. You're not worthy."
"With your family background, just standing beside me is already reaching above your station."
Meng Lingyi had always been level-headed. She cut away the dead weight and moved forward, never looking back.
If someone was rotten, she didn't want him anymore.
Song Jingyan sneered. "With her circumstances, there's no way she'll find anyone better than me."
What he didn't know was this:
At the matchmaking table, his uncle, elegant and composed, said, "Miss Meng, please consider me."
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Song Zhili said, "My only shortcoming is that I'm six years older than you."
Meng Lingyi nodded. "That's fine. I'm pretty mature, not childish."
Later...
Meng Lingyi, who had insisted she wasn't childish, tugged on his pinky finger. "Give in to me, just this once!"
The man, his eyes bloodshot, leaned down slightly. "Baby, I can give in on anything else, but not this."
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Song Zhili: "A ray of light belonging to someone else appeared in my lightless world."
"She mistook a fish's eye for a pearl, cast aside the sun, and chose a lamp."
"So I followed the light, climbed relentlessly, and would never let go until death."
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What Meng Lingyi never told Song Jingyan was that the heiress he pursued was nothing but an impostor who had stolen someone else's place.
