A Night to Keep Warm

Song Yin fell for her fiancé's younger uncle, Fu Pingnian, when she was twenty.

With stern features and a cold, detached manner, he had already become one of the most powerful figures in the Fu family at a young age.

She, on the other hand, was just passing through the Fu family, hoping to use him to get away.

Just as her plan was about to succeed, Song Yin found herself stranded abroad and unexpectedly sharing a home with him.

Overcome by desire, she took the initiative and kissed him. In return, she got a passionate kiss.

After that, he became her secret lover.

But she knew there was always an uncrossable divide between them, so on the night her engagement was called off, she broke up with him at the same time.

In that moment, she etched the cold silhouette beneath the moonlight into her memory.

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To Fu Pingnian, Song Yin was a younger generation member of the family when they first met, his nephew's future bride. He treated her with the highest courtesy one would show a relative.

But she quietly set her ambitions on him. He tried to sound her out and put her in her place on his nephew's behalf, only to end up falling into her trap himself.

After barely two months together, their secret relationship ended with him being dumped and used.

A humiliation he would remember for the rest of his life.

How could he accept that?

But when they met again, he learned that no one in the world could be as cold as she was.

Later, everyone knew that the Fu family patriarch often went to inspect projects in the western part of the city.

It wasn't until a photo surfaced of him holding lilies outside a jewelry studio that he finally came clean: "My girlfriend has a temper. I was still pursuing her at the time."

"After becoming her lover, I no longer needed to turn on the lights on cold nights. I could draw warmth from her soft glow."

*Gentle on the outside, strong within x brooding and deeply devoted

*Innocent-looking beauty x powerful family patriarch

Ten-year age gap | Stealing someone's girl | Mutual devotion

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Reader's Guide:

1. Neither lead is perfect;

2. The heroine and her fiancé are only bound by a contractual arrangement;

3. Both are sexually inexperienced. After the breakup, the hero has a one-sided little tantrum. There is a little groveling later on. I'll add more if I think of anything else.

Blurb revised on April 21, 2026

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*Friends with benefits to lovers | He falls first | Instinctive attraction

*Radiant and fickle x uptight and aloof

*Heiress x mathematics professor

They first met in a bar.

It was pouring rain. Jiang Mingzhu wasn't in the best mood, but she forced herself to stay alert as she accepted her twenty-fifth birthday present from a friend.

A strange man barged into the private room, trying to take his student away from her.

He was disciplined and uptight, his black shirt perfectly outlining his broad shoulders and narrow waist. His looks put everyone else in the room to shame.

She tapped a finger against his hard chest through his shirt. Annoyed that her fun had been interrupted, she teased him maliciously: "You can take him, but you have to stay and keep me company."

Overcome by desire, they spent a reckless night together.

After that, they met on every rainy day as promised, without ever talking about feelings.

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After a family crisis, Jiang Mingzhu found herself a suitable marriage prospect.

Love didn't matter. What mattered was that his family background and assets could help her maintain her current extravagant lifestyle, something Wen Peilin's meager professor's salary clearly couldn't provide.

Once everything was settled, she told him they were over and left a card with 200,000 yuan on the bedside table.

The man's usually unshakable composure cracked ever so slightly. With pride and haughty disdain, he told her to get out.

She thought they were parting on good terms, so she quickly got dressed and left with her bag, perfectly satisfied.

But half a month later, the man suddenly appeared in a suit at her engagement banquet.

Holding a glass of wine, he exuded an intimidating air. Without a smile, he looked at her fiancé. "Aren't you going to introduce us?"

Her fiancé let go of her hand and nodded politely and respectfully. "Uncle, this is Mingzhu." Then he turned to her and prompted, "Mingzhu, say hello."

Jiang Mingzhu looked into Wen Peilin's deep eyes and remembered those tangled, rain-soaked days they had spent together. Her thoughts were a mess. What was she supposed to call him?

The same as before, and make him hurry up a little?

Theme: Don't stay trapped in the same place.