A Game of Love and Desire [The Chase After the Breakup]

My next book will be Spring Warbler Never Returns. Add it to your reading list to follow. Over-the-top angst┃the chase after she leaves┃bittersweet The most common words Chen Qianning used to describe Fang Tan were obedient and sensible. So when he told her they had to break up because he was preparing for an arranged marriage, she agreed without hesitation. Even when he asked her to leave the capital forever and quit the entertainment industry, she agreed. She was as obedient as a puppet, doing whatever he told her. The only person who came to see Fang Tan off on the day she left the capital was an assistant she had once worked with. “Tan-Tan, you’re really leaving? You’ve worked so hard in Jing City for so many years.” Fang Tan smiled. “Why wouldn’t I? Should I stay and get blacklisted?” The assistant opened her mouth at that, but didn’t know what to say. People in the industry had heard the news already: Chen Qianning’s fiancée planned to quietly blacklist Fang Tan. Every extra day she stayed in show business would mean one more day of humiliation. Fang Tan left. Watching the scenery flash past the window, she held her diagnosis in her hand and reflected on life’s unpredictability. When she had first arrived in the capital a few years ago, she had been full of dreams for the place. She had wanted to build a successful career, find someone to spend her life with, and live happily ever after. But now, she had lost her career and the person she loved. And she had only one year left to live. * Many years later, whenever Chen Qianning thought back on his reckless youth, the image of a pretty girl with dimples whenever she smiled would always surface in his mind. Her name was Fang Tan. On her twenty-second birthday, she had once wished she could marry him. He had jokingly said yes, promising he would marry her someday. But the truth was that he could never marry her. An actress was beneath his station. Later, when someone told him Fang Tan might die, Chen Qianning smoked his last cigarette and said, “Then let her die. She’s just an actress who dated me for a while. What makes her think she deserves my condolences? Who does she think she is?” Later still, everyone at the Chen Group was saying that the young heir had been skipping senior management meetings over and over. His excuse was a certain actress filming a commercial in Hengdian, who apparently already belonged to someone else. Late at night, Chen Qianning watched Fang Tan get out of another man’s car. His eyes bloodshot, he walked up to her and said, “Fang Tan, I was wrong. Won’t you look at me?” There are a lot of potential triggers, so proceed with caution. Synopsis for Spring Warbler Never Returns: When Wei Zheng took the money and chose to marry someone else, Chen Jixing told her that if she ever dared return to the country, he would make sure she was dead. When Wei Zheng came back, Chen Jixing really did use every means at his disposal to make sure she couldn’t stay in the country. Until one day, Wei Zheng got into trouble and faced the possibility of prison. Chen Jixing appeared before her with his team of lawyers. “Give up custody of the child you had with Lin Yin, and I’ll help you.” “I will never give up custody.” Chen Jixing gritted his teeth. “Fine. You’d better finish the road you chose, even if you have to crawl.” * Before Wei Zheng went to prison, she entrusted her child with Lin Yin to Chen Jixing. In the pouring rain, mother and child stood outside his home. Wei Zheng patted the child on the back as the little one called out in a babyish voice, “Daddy.” Chen Jixing flew into a rage. “You’d do even this for that little bastard! What makes you think he can call me that and I’ll raise him?” Raise her and Lin Yin’s child? Not a chance! Theme: A love that flows gently and never fades