| Unrequited love | Bittersweet | Possessive pursuit | Reunion after years apart |
[Brash, lively heiress who bulldozes everyone × aloof, refined, humble and sensitive man who is only gentle with the heroine]
Also known as Poor and Insecure Are a Handsome Man's Best Qualities. [Winter release]
Chu Xuan ran away the night before her arranged marriage.
She'd lived her whole life doing whatever she pleased, and there was no way she'd marry someone she didn't love.
Penniless and with her cards suspended, she sold several cars and barely managed to get by sharing a place with someone.
Shen Yuwen was an honest man so handsome he took your breath away. He had fair skin and a small mole beneath his beautiful, expressive eyes.
He spoke gently in a soft, lilting voice, smiled sweetly, and was an excellent cook.
He was just a little slow and easily embarrassed. Whenever Chu Xuan came near, his face turned as red as a tomato and he couldn't get a word out.
He folded Chu Xuan's clothes, cooked for her, and coaxed her to bed when she got drunk.
Every night, he sat on the sofa with a kitten in his arms, waiting for Chu Xuan to come home.
Chu Xuan had never been the home-loving type, but for the first time, she felt the appeal of a husband, children, and a warm home.
With the New Year approaching, Chu Xuan offered to help Shen Yuwen tidy up his rented apartment, and unexpectedly found a diary:
[I'm graduating tomorrow. I saved for three years to buy a secondhand camera. I wonder if I can get a picture of you from behind. You never come to school.
I really want to take a photo with you, but I'm so ugly, I'm afraid I'll scare you.]
[Actually, I've gotten much better-looking now. Would you meet me?]
Chu Xuan's graduation photo was tucked inside the diary.
The aching story of his secret love unfolded before her, but Chu Xuan had long forgotten there had ever been anyone like him in her high school days.
Before she could demand an explanation, Shen Yuwen, exposed in his unrequited love, fled in panic.
News spread throughout S City that the heir to the Chu Group would soon be married.
Shen Yuwen picked up a newspaper, his heart heavy.
Life was returning to normal, and Chu Xuan was going to live her own life. She was so kind that even when she learned about his unrequited love, she hadn't said a single harsh word. He couldn't be greedy anymore.
Their reunion had been nothing more than a gift from fate.
He returned to his old rented apartment in a daze. When he switched on the light, Chu Xuan was sitting on the sofa, glaring at him with her sharp phoenix eyes as if she were about to devour him.
She put a hand on the back of his neck. Her unyielding tone made his heart jump.
"Come on, tell me. Where have you been all these months?"
"You... don't be like this..."
"Like what? Would you not have come back if I hadn't gotten married? Trying to get away from me? Shen Yuwen, I'm telling you, "
Chu Xuan restrained his hands as he tried to push her away, then gritted her teeth and whispered into his red-hot ear:
"Not a chance."
[Reader's Guide]
1. Both leads are each other's only partners.
2. Image source: @EarlyBirdBad
3. Angsty, satisfying story with a male lead who suffers.
4. Only the pheromone setting is borrowed. Female A, male B. The leads don't have their respective parts. No childbirth.
Uploaded 2026/1/21
Theme: Fated ties that never end
