The Puppy Keeps Pretending Not to Care

Rekindled love / divorced heroine learns to love herself, builds a career, and becomes a gorgeous older sister / calculating younger man who loves putting on a show.

Eastern European foreign trade / micro-mirror development

Blurb:

After her divorce, Lin Peilan started a new life and found a new lover, five years younger than her and a student of her ex-husband. He was sweet and innocent.

The young man seemed to have boundless energy. His love was passionate and domineering, often more than she could handle.

With all sorts of factors working against them, this relationship, never approved of by those around them to begin with, ended hastily in the end.

When they met again, Lin Peilan was in a hotel lobby, coldly scolding her ex-husband, who was acting crazy and asking to remarry her.

A man coming through the revolving door lowered his head to give his subordinate instructions, his suit jacket draped over his forearm. He seemed to notice the scene unfolding on her side and glanced over, his gaze not lingering.

She lowered her eyes, thinking, So we're strangers now.

When they met again later, he was aloof and coldly dignified, calling her Ms. Lin and dismissing their once-burning love as youthful recklessness and thoughtlessness.

And later still...

He appeared at her door, reeking of alcohol, his eyes red as he buried his face against her neck.

"About asking you to get back together..."

"Can I cut in line, Big Sister?"

"Please let me cut in."

"I'm going crazy."

"Big Sister, I'm really going crazy."

The young man gasped and choked back sobs, every word steeped in a desperate longing he could no longer suppress.

The next day, sober again, he slapped himself. "You're pathetic."

*Difference in stature.

*The heroine isn't a virgin, but the hero is. He loves only her and wants only her.

*The heroine will eventually break free from her family.

*Updates are irregular.

Theme: As long as you dare to start over, it's never too late.