A Long-Planned Seduction: My Abstinent Uncle Coaxes Me into His Arms

Unrelated by blood, fake uncle and niece; abstinent powerful man x soft and sweet girl; wealthy-family power struggles + mutual devotion; sweet push-and-pull romance, no melodramatic abuse of the heroine.

When Lu Manman was ten, her world came crashing down.

Her mother died of illness, and her father remarried in a hurry. Her cruel stepmother tormented her every day. Beatings, cold and hunger, and endless cruelty trapped the little girl in hell.

On a stormy night, she was locked outside. Shivering with a high fever, she sat alone on the steps, thinking she was about to follow her mother into death.

Until a young man arrived through the rain, holding a black umbrella.

He was Gu Xiuyuan, the second young master of the Gu family in the capital. Cool and abstinent, he held power over capital at a young age, with an imposing presence.

Everyone thought he was simply looking after an old friend’s daughter out of kindness, at the request of his sister-in-law.

Manman obediently called him Uncle, relying on him and trusting him, making him her only support.

The restrained affection of youth quietly grew with each passing day they spent together.

In the dim room late at night, his low voice broke through all restraint: “Do you want to kiss?”

When the truth about her drunken, stolen kiss came out, she was so embarrassed she had nowhere to hide. He, however, openly admitted his feelings.

But concern lingered in his eyes: “Can you tell the difference between dependence and love?”

He fought his way through the game of power, seized control, and cleaned up the Gu family’s mess one piece at a time.

And she broke through her inner fears and walked toward him with determination.

Amid all the schemes in the world, she alone was the exception he chose with all his heart.