My Husband Always Wants to Compete with Me

【Arranged marriage to love / old-school melodrama】 Shan Nian’s peaceful life is thrown off course by an arranged marriage. The first time they meet is at the civil affairs bureau. They each take their marriage certificate and head back to their own company. The second time, outside Nocturne, he sees her rescuing a woman from a life of prostitution and mocks her mercilessly. She thinks, How can anyone be so arrogant? He’s rude and full of himself. Apart from his face, he has not a single redeeming quality. Someone drugs her. When she’s dazed and overwhelmed, she wraps her arms around his waist, only to get a curt reply: “Behave yourself. Don’t move around.” She can’t help falling for him, only to receive a cold reminder: “Don’t overstep. Everything I do is because of my position.” She rises onto her toes and kisses his chin. The man pins her against the wall and demands: “You really like me, don’t you?” She smiles as she answers. Yes. I like you. But what good is being in love? In the end, she’s still left in a locked room, eyes red as she begs him, “Why can’t you just let me go?” The man looks down at her from above. He says nothing. Her heart is already broken. She murmurs in despair, “Qin Zeyang, do you think I’ll forgive you, or do you think that whether I forgive you or not, I’ll never be able to escape your grasp?” After the divorce. He has a new woman on his arm, while she appears with another man’s arm linked through hers. That very night, Qin Zeyang forces her onto the bed and pats her cheek. “You seem to like him a lot, huh?” This time, she says nothing. He won’t let it go. “Didn’t you say you only liked me?” She bites her lip and stays silent. The shadows deepen in his eyes. He starts biting her roughly, his muffled words spilling from his throat: “How about this? Make me happy tonight, and I’ll spare his life. How’s that?” Theme: Grow into a better person.