Easier Said Than Done [Rekindled Love]

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Rekindled romance | wealthy Beijing circles | childhood friends | stealing someone's partner

🌟 A tsundere cat who's sworn off love x a stubborn dog who only wants his ex back

🌧️ Also known as: What do I do about my ex-boyfriend loving me too much?

1.

The news that He Zhiren had returned to China set Beijing's elite circles abuzz overnight.

Rumors flew.

Some said she regretted her impulsive breakup with the Tan family's young master and had come back to make up with him.

Others swore she'd already made a success of herself overseas and had returned only to deal with her ungrateful, live-in son-in-law of a father.

"I also heard she brought a man back to register their marriage."

At a drinking party, someone casually tossed the remark at Tan Yan and asked what he thought.

Tan Yan didn't answer. He just lowered his eyes and turned the silver bracelet set with tiny blue diamonds around his left wrist. Its light gleamed coldly.

He was more certain than anyone that the last version was absolutely impossible.

Until that night, when he saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure beneath his apartment building.

"Long time no see," she said first. Five years had passed, but her voice hadn't changed much.

There was a man beside her now.

"Let me introduce you. This is my fiance, Lin Fan." She looked up at him, a faint smile on her lips. "Our wedding is next month. I hope you can come."

The wind in Beijing wasn't strong that night.

But Tan Yan felt far colder than he had in the winter five years ago, when she turned and walked away.

2.

On the wedding day, the bride was nowhere to be seen. No one could reach her by phone, either.

The hotel was turned upside down in the search.

Lin Fan guessed He Zhiren had gone to the northern suburbs. He asked the staff to keep things under control, then drove off to look for her.

But he was in such a hurry that he completely overlooked the black Maybach S parked beside his car.

In the back seat, He Zhiren, wearing a dressing gown, was pinned beneath Tan Yan.

The man's heavy breathing fell across her face. As wave after wave of unbearable tingles washed over her, all she could do was beg him to stop.

Tan Yan eventually stopped, but he still wouldn't let her get up.

He buried his face in the crook of her neck, his voice muffled and almost pleading. He Zhiren wondered if she'd imagined the faint sound of sobbing beside her ear.

"He Zhiren. I told you I could help you. Why didn't you choose me in the end?"

Tan Yan left and didn't go back to the wedding banquet.

When He Zhiren changed out of her ceremonial gown, she saw that the red robe she'd taken off was damp on the right shoulder, where he'd just buried his face.

*HE / 1v1 / sc / Creative liberties taken for an enjoyable read.

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Theme: Face reality, or fall into the whirlpool of love?