That night, Chi Yao got drunk. Her ex-boyfriend, Lan Ze, carefully held her in his arms, his thin lips almost brushing her ear. “Chi Yao, don’t choose him. Choose me, okay?”
His voice was low, edged with anger. “Chi Yao, I can give you what he can’t. What exactly is your relationship with him? Why are you deliberately distancing yourself from me for his sake?”
*
Later, the Chi family went bankrupt. Chi Yao packed up her beloved guitar and ended up singing for tips in a bar.
Everyone thought the family’s bankruptcy would crush her and leave her unable to recover, but Chi Yao was stronger than anyone imagined. Even when she was down on her luck, she kept living her life earnestly.
She adopted a clingy little cat.
The person she liked stayed by her side. Chi Yao planned to wait until she got paid next month and had gotten back on her feet before making things official with Wu Heng.
It was a night of pouring rain.
She was full of anticipation, holding her cat and preparing a candlelit dinner as she waited at home for Wu Heng. But the person knocking at the door wasn’t him. It was her ex-boyfriend, Lan Ze.
Lan Ze pushed his way inside and forced Chi Yao into a corner. His resentful, desperate kiss came down on her, rough and crude.
The cat in her arms fled in terror.
The young man was drenched, his hair disheveled. Beneath his stubborn, icy voice lay a hot, possessive gaze. “You forgot me so soon? The engagement between our families hasn’t been called off. If you want to date someone new, shouldn’t you ask your fiancé first?”
“Chi Yao, if you won’t choose, I’ll choose for you.”
[The entire story is undergoing major revisions. The unrevised chapters are temporarily locked and will be restored when the revisions are finished. If you’ve read it before, you can read it again.]
1. The heroine has other partners; the hero doesn’t. / Coercive romance / Stealing a friend’s partner. The leads aren’t perfect people. Four-year age gap. Over-the-top melodrama and Mary Sue vibes, with the classic “Woman, you’re playing with fire” kind of drama.
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