After I Dumped My Construction-Worker Boyfriend, He Became a Big Shot

[Rugged man | possessive love | 1990s]

[Rugged, rough-hewn man x delicate beauty]

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In the 1990s, impoverished Yi Qinghe gets together with the strong and burly Jiang Lifeng so she can afford to attend university.

Jiang Lifeng carries a snakeskin sack into the city with her. He earns twenty yuan a day hauling bricks at a construction site and gives her nineteen yuan and ninety cents, keeping just enough to eat steamed buns with pickled vegetables.

He looks tall and intimidating, but he's a man who cherishes his wife. Even in bed, he tries to be gentle and treats her with the utmost care.

But she can't stand his possessiveness. Once she's saved enough money, she turns around and disappears.

Jiang Lifeng searches for her for three years. When they meet again, he's become a dangerous man with a name and a reputation in the area.

Drenched in sweat, he sits on a leather sofa in an abandoned factory. A line of men stands behind him. He spins a lighter in his hand and looks up at her.

"Yi Qinghe, did you get together with me back then just for those tuition fees?"

She backs away in fear, the suffocating memory of him gripping her by the throat and kissing her passionately flooding her mind.

He stands up, his black tank top outlining his shoulders and back, and advances step by step. "You'd better explain yourself today, or you won't be walking out that door."