"Contract relationship / rekindled romance / heroine runs away and gets caught / six-year age gap"
"Mild-mannered vs. brooding / heiress vs. powerful business tycoon"
The year Song Zhining turned twenty, she got a boyfriend: Yu Huai, the untouchable head of the Yu family.
Their relationship was secret and had an expiration date. No outsider knew about it.
One was an outstanding student at Haida University, excelling both academically and morally. The other was a ruthless financier who ruled the business world.
They seemed to have nothing in common, yet spent their nights tangled together, giving themselves to each other.
They slept with their arms entwined, each with their own thoughts.
Song Zhining entered the relationship to escape her birth family.
She never asked what Yu Huai wanted from it, and didn't care in the slightest.
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Later on.
Song Zhining found her biological parents. It turned out she was the only daughter of the Song family in Jing City.
Looking back on the wretched life she'd lived, she felt furious. She never should have had to live that way.
So...
When her agreement with Yu Huai expired, she broke up with him at once and returned to the Song family, ready to embrace a new life.
But she never expected...
Her family had arranged a marriage for her.
The first time she saw the man they'd chosen, she realized that the scowling face before her looked more and more like her ex from the contract relationship!
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After marriage.
Song Zhining had planned to be a married couple in name only, united for business with Yu Huai.
But could a man who'd gone without sex for six months really let her have her way? Every day, he came up with new ways to leave her utterly exhausted.
He pinned her against the headboard, ignoring her reddened eyes and clouded mind.
His kisses were more forceful than before, as if pouring all his longing and resentment into her.
"Ningning, you said I was the one you loved most. How could you leave me so cruelly?"
"Ningning, this time our marriage is official. You can't run away now."
"Ningning..."
Reading guide:
1. One-on-one, both leads are each other's only partners. Six-year age gap. The contract relationship lasts three years.
2. The story begins two months before the contract expires.
3. The heroine was abducted and sold. Her name is Tang Qiu at first, then she takes back her original name, Song Zhining, later on. The trafficker is sentenced to death.
Theme: After all the twists and turns, it's still you.
