Cruel Seduction

A gentle, powerful older woman x a pure, resilient, sensitive younger woman

Jiang Moxia first met Cen Ning at a bidding conference packed with influential figures.

Cen Ning wore a jade-white qipao, her graceful figure elegant and refined. She strode down the red carpet in white heels, the undisputed winner of the event.

Compared with Jiang Moxia, who was working part-time at the conference, they were worlds apart.

Drawn to Cen Ning's presence, Jiang Moxia impulsively reached out to steady her.

They met again when Jiang Moxia was at her lowest. The cost of her mother's medical treatment weighed on her until she could barely breathe. She ran through the rain like a madwoman, then fell into the mud.

The rain poured down. Cen Ning opened an umbrella and stepped gracefully out of her Rolls-Royce. Raindrops darkened the expensive leather of her shoes, and she tilted the black umbrella away from herself to shield Jiang Moxia. A faint lotus fragrance dispelled the damp and brought a hint of warmth. Jiang Moxia looked up in a daze. Through her rain-blurred vision, a pale jade-white hand reached out, offering her a soft handkerchief.

A one-year contract, each getting what she wanted.

Cen Ning was tender and treated her well. Jiang Moxia often found herself wondering if she had fallen into a sweet romance.

When passion ran high, Cen Ning would say things to soothe her, promising they would stay together forever and spend their lives side by side.

Jiang Moxia believed her, and secretly looked forward to that future.

But when the contract ended, Cen Ning calmly withdrew and left,

as if she had never said any of those things.

Cen Ning seemed like a different person, cold and merciless: “You were just a pet. Did you really think I would like you?”

Jiang Moxia's heart shattered. To Cen Ning, she had been nothing more than something money could buy.

She refused Cen Ning's compensation, left a farewell letter, and fled from her that very night.

Cen Ning was the heir to a top-tier wealthy family, and had never acted out of line. Her one mistake was keeping a pure and obedient lover. Cen Ning had thought she would always be obedient, never imagining she would leave so decisively.

Only when the letter arrived, its every word sharp enough to tear Cen Ning's heart open and shred it, did the usually composed Cen Ning regret everything to the point of madness. She tried every means at her disposal, but could not find Jiang Moxia.

Then, five years later, at a product launch, Jiang Moxia appeared before her with another woman on her arm, intimate and flirtatious.

Only then did Cen Ning realize just how deeply she had fallen.

“Was it I who tempted you?

Did I ever speak kindly to you?

Did I not make it perfectly clear

that I did not love you, and could not love you?”

Shakespeare

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Theme: True love stands the test of time.