Opening at the end of 2026
Marriage first, then hate, then love | □□ literature | Older, fatherly male lead | A love mired in hatred
Cold, rational female secretary × sinister, lustful man in power
Seventeen years ago, Xi Jifan's father imprisoned Cen Baiyun's mother, who died of sorrow.
Seventeen years later, Cen Baiyun secretly married Xi Jifan, under the guise of his secretary.
Xi Jifan was an illegitimate son who used underhanded methods to take the chairman's seat, keeping the rest of the Xi family under his heel.
Cen Baiyun concealed her identity and joined the Xi Corporation to get close to Xi Jifan. It took her just two years to go from secretary to wife.
After marriage, they continued to act like ordinary coworkers in public. Even when they lived together, they kept strictly to their own sides. Except in bed.
The outside world said Xi Jifan had no interest in women. The truth was quite the opposite. In bed, he was a madman.
One day, Cen Baiyun discovered a sealed underground room. Every inch of its walls was covered with photographs of her, from her girlhood to adulthood, from every stage of her life and every season.
Alongside the photographs, an electric shock chair sat in a shadowy corner of the basement. Flecks of dried blood stained it.
Cen Baiyun finally understood. Xi Jifan was just like his father: both were monsters wearing human skin.
After years of biding her time, she finally used the Xi family's secrets to strike a bargain with Xi Jifan's father and take her mother's ashes.
Before leaving, Cen Baiyun left behind a divorce agreement and a single sentence.
"Xi Jifan, I never loved you. You and your father are both despicable."
The man tore the divorce agreement to pieces, but no treatment could cure what was wrong with him now.
She was gone, and he would never be whole again.
Blurb first drafted on 2026.05.07
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Theme: Life's challenges can only be solved by yourself
