Older man vs. beauty
Age gap | The second male lead steals her away and takes the lead | The male lead pursues his wife to the crematorium
Wen Qing Ci first met Fu Jing Ting when she was eighteen.
At the time, she was crouching in a damp, misty courtyard in a miserable state, while he watched her from under the eaves, distant and refined, noble and untouchable.
The next day, he sent her a little Bernese Mountain Dog under someone else's name. Grateful to him, Wen Qing Ci messaged him: "Thank you, Mr. Fu."
He didn't reply.
She next saw Mr. Fu when she was twenty-three. He pulled her out of the quagmire of her marriage and gave her a broad, welcoming embrace. He took care of her in every detail and accepted all her little tempers.
The day Fu Jing Ting proposed, Wen Qing Ci cried uncontrollably.
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Fu Jing Ting fell in love with Wen Qing Ci when he was thirty-nine.
The day he returned to Jiang City and saw the young woman again, the weather was still drizzling. She sat in the corner of a coffee shop, looking unhappy.
The Bernese Mountain Dog he'd given her all those years ago sat by her legs.
Later, he learned that she was having a difficult time in her marriage.
It should have had nothing to do with him, but the sight of the young woman looking so sad overlapped with the scene from years ago. Poor thing.
So at a private gathering, in front of her husband, he blurted out something entirely inappropriate: "Why didn't you tell me you were getting married? Were you still angry that I didn't reply to your message that year?"
Everyone present was dumbfounded.
He'd meant to use his position to help her. He never expected that afterward he'd say one inappropriate thing after another, and do one inappropriate thing after another.
Before You Read:
1. Sixteen-year age gap.
2. The heroine has a child with her ex-husband, conceived through IVF.
Theme: You know my darkness, and grant me a spring morning
