The Breakup Fee Was Way Too Much

Angsty unrequited love and a breakup-groveling arc [Tell Me You Love Me Again] Please add to your favorites

Everyone at the company knew Jiang Li had seduced Lu Jinyu and become his assistant for three years.

Over the years, Jiang Li had sent countless suitors and marriage prospects packing. With her ruthless tactics and seductive charms, she clung to Lu Jinyu's side, keeping every other woman at a distance.

No one expected Lu Jinyu's first love to return to the country in such a high-profile way.

The usually refined and dignified President Lu canceled all his work to pick her up in person, then moved her into his own villa.

Everyone gleefully waited to see what tricks Jiang Li would use to tear his first love apart, but all they got was Jiang Li's resignation letter.

And the sight of her walking away in style, holding a check for an enormous breakup payment.

Jiang Li had known all along that Lu Jinyu only had eyes for his first love.

She put away all her fantasies, dutifully did what he asked, and dealt with each woman he wanted gone.

He kept his noble, refined reputation, while she was left with the label of a ruthless seductress.

It was all because the breakup payment he'd promised was simply too high.

How could she turn it down?

After taking the money and spending a wild stretch of time enjoying herself, she returned to her old rental, only to find Lu Jinyu, usually so immaculate and meticulous, standing there with a scruffy beard.

He'd been waiting there for five nights.

His dejected appearance couldn't hide his cold, proud air. He let the rain soak through his expensive shirt as he gripped her wrist tightly, his voice burning with a madness she'd never heard before.

"Jiang Li, grown wings, have you? Think you can just disappear?"

Jiang Li was confused. "But I already took your breakup payment..."

Lu Jinyu: "That damn check was your bride price!"

[Bonus Scene]

The night Lu Jinyu planned to end things with Jiang Li, he saw her sitting motionless by the window all night, clutching a tissue soaked through with tears. Her eyes were completely dry.

Lu Jinyu hesitated. She loved him so much. If she left him, might she do something foolish?

By the time Jiang Li yawned for the 101st time, her eyes were completely dry.

She was afraid she'd fall asleep just when Lu Jinyu came to give her the breakup payment, so she waited for him all night.

Where was he?

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The man Yu Yue had kept in her heart for six years was about to get engaged to someone else.

The day after she'd confessed her feelings to him.

She'd summoned all the courage she had and overcome her insecurity and sensitivity to say, "I love you."

She would never say it a second time in her life.

She accepted that Jian Muxing was only her benefactor, a bright moon high in the sky, someone she could admire but never reach.

He had every reason to be proud, and there was never a shortage of women around him.

She was merely an insignificant speck of dust beside him, and the most lowly speck of all, since she still depended on his financial support.

His kindness and indulgence toward her came only from pity.

Yu Yue gradually withdrew from Jian Muxing's life, put away her foolish dreams of loving him, and accepted the confession of a young man who was pursuing her.

The first time she brought her boyfriend to meet him, Jian Muxing's expression stayed calm.

But the cigarette pinched between his fingers snapped in two, and the glowing tip burned his palm.

Yu Yue knew how hard she'd worked to escape the remote mountains where she'd grown up. She wanted a place to call home in this city.

But even after giving it everything she had, she was still just a passerby in the city.

She met a very good man. He wasn't dazzling, but he could give her a small, warm home.

On the night before her wedding, the man she'd buried in her heart and nearly forgotten pulled her into his arms, reeking of alcohol.

The scars on his wrist from trying to hurt himself could not be hidden. He begged her like a madman: "Tell me you love me again. Just once."

Theme: Every effort will be rewarded.