A Love Shrouded in Gloom

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Coercive love + bittersweet, melodramatic angst

Brooding and obsessive / clear-headed and gentle

When Lin Zhiyi learns that Min Zhiting has returned to the country, her friend warns her to stay away from him. After all, things between them were devastating back then.

In high school, Min Zhiting was the talk of the school: the only son of the prominent Min family of Nancheng, with a face blessed by nature.

Now he's even more impressive, a rising star in tech and the picture of success.

Lin Zhiyi knows all too well how obsessive and cruel he is at heart. She doesn't want to get tangled up with him again. She doesn't need her friend's warning to stay away.

*

She starts making plans to get engaged, but her fiance's company suddenly faces a withdrawal of investment.

In the quiet, spacious living room, she demands, "Why?"

The man opposite her corners her against the wall. His long, narrow eyes are half-lowered. When he looks up, they're filled with nothing but icy hatred. "Why what? Of course it's to get you by my side."

"I'll hate you."

"So you're the one who hates me?" Min Zhiting says with a mocking smile, unconcerned. He enunciates every word: "I've hated you for a long time."

Lin Zhiyi knows, of course, that Min Zhiting hates her. In his eyes, she owes him two lives, then turned around and abandoned him.

*

Two years into their marriage, after a failed attempt to divorce, he holds her in his arms late at night. After a long silence, he says softly, "Let's have a child, okay?"

She nods and says yes.

Three and a half years into their marriage, their child is born.

Four years into their marriage, after occasionally finishing her writing, she looks down from the second floor and sees him playing with their child in his arms.

Standing by the window, she starts to wonder, for no particular reason, whether this is how everyone lives.

Five years into their marriage, she hands him divorce papers for the second time.

* The leads don't know how to communicate. Expect misunderstandings and push and pull, with a bittersweet, angsty romance.

* The leads aren't perfect people. The male lead isn't a good person.

* Flashbacks interspersed throughout.

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