Falling for Him [The Second Male Lead Takes the Lead]

[Please add my next book, A Night in the Capital, to your reading list.]

[Blurb]

Both leads are sexually inexperienced and faithful | Favor from a powerful man | Stealing someone else's partner | Coercion | Eight-year age gap

Xia Shiwei and Jiang Yichen's relationship played out over one gathering after another.

Xia Shiwei never liked crowds and was no good at socializing.

She went with him to gatherings filled with young masters and socialites.

She stood at his side, the most impressive ornament he could show off.

Quiet and obedient, never asking too many questions and never trying to please anyone.

She'd grown used to people's scrutinizing glances,

and to the silence that made her feel so out of place.

At that party, the lights were dim.

Xia Shiwei sat quietly in a corner, like a ray of light that couldn't reach the noisy crowd.

That was, until Zhou Cong walked through the door.

The man stood at the very top, cold and heartless, his features radiating an icy warning to stay away.

Everyone rose to welcome him, yet his gaze was indifferent. When it fell on her,

it was too intense, too hot, as if he meant to see right through her.

One day, he cornered her and said in a low, husky voice:

"Xia Shiwei, break up with him. I want you."

Zhou Cong was born into one of the most powerful families at the top of society, and his name carried weight.

Others only saw his composed and restrained side. Only Xia Shiwei knew the possessive obsession hidden beneath his cool exterior.

In the long days that followed, he quietly drew closer, step by step. He never pressured or startled her, slowly and carefully drawing her into his protection.

[An absurd first meeting, love at first sight.]

[Powerful elite of the capital x ordinary university student / financial journalist]

A few reading tips:

- The leads' romance begins after the heroine has broken up with her ex-boyfriend.

- The novel includes many fictional details. The characters and their backgrounds are designed to create the atmosphere, and the locations are all fictional. Please don't associate them with real life.

- The characters' values do not represent the author's own.

Blurb written on 2026/03/11 and saved by screenshot.

Revised on 2026/06/16.

Theme: Love as redemption