Possessive pursuit | Marriage first, love later | A gentleman loses control
Sweet, well-behaved flirt × Cold on the outside, unhinged on the inside
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On a night of London’s worst blizzard in a decade, the power went out in the apartment. Slightly drunk, Meng Jinyi wrapped her arms around her boyfriend from behind, and he kissed her fiercely and passionately.
The moment the lights came back on, she saw the man’s deep-set eyes and refined features, cold as frost.
It was her boyfriend’s friend, Li Yehui.
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The Li family of Shanghai was one of the city’s top dynasties. Its head, Li Yehui, was famously proud and refined, and kept away from romance.
When he chose to marry Meng Jinyi, daughter of a family of scholars, everyone in their circle said he was simply taking a gentle beauty as his wife, someone reliable and easy to live with.
Meng Jinyi also thought it was nothing more than a marriage of convenience, understood by both sides.
For the first three months of their marriage, they kept clear boundaries and lived in peace.
Li Yehui gave her absolute freedom, and she kept a polite distance. Until that charity gala
Her ex-boyfriend appeared. Meng Jinyi’s fingers trembled, and her champagne rippled.
She thought no one had noticed, but she didn’t know that, amid the crowd fawning over him, his gaze had already darkened like a sea shrouded in mist.
Late at night, when all was quiet.
Meng Jinyi had just taken off her earrings when she was pressed against the mirror in the dressing room. The man traced a path down from her earlobe until her pale skin flushed red.
His voice was hoarse and low. “Today, everyone was wondering when I started falling for you.”
“Jinyi, do you want to hear the truth?”
Meng Jinyi trembled all over, her eyes glistening.
“Ever since the night you shivered in my arms.”
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On the snowy night he first met Meng Jinyi,
Li Yehui stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the couple downstairs kiss.
Only after they walked upstairs hand in hand did he lower his eyes and light a cigarette. The ember flickered, and his gaze turned terrifyingly dark.
“When I saw you kissing someone else in the snow that day, I knew I was done for.”
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