A Rare Love [A Love Lost in Hatred]

Love in wealthy families is like a scarce resource: plenty of people hear about it, but few ever get to have it.

Guan Zhaoxi lives by a simple motto: she'd rather be a bad person than a kind one.

[Older man / love and hatred entangled]

Everyone knew how much Guan Zhaoxi loved Shi Nan in those years.

She met him when she was ten, chased after him for eleven years, and tormented each other for seven.

She was willing to get engaged early and become a pawn in his struggle for power.

Everyone knew she was the one throwing herself at him.

No one knew how vicious he was by nature. The day they finally tore off their masks, he showed his true face:

"What don't you want?" His voice was hoarse. "Didn't you used to love this? You were a lot more honest when you were seducing me."

[Younger man / a reunion out of step]

She and Yu Qiulin were like two ships that would never cross paths.

No one knew how close they had once been.

Seven years later, she met him again.

Everyone in their circle knew he was her younger sister's boyfriend.

The boy who had once chased after her with all his heart had become an ally she needed to win over.

The night she agreed to work with him, he carried her to the hotel sofa. His eyes were full of an obsession with their seven years apart that he couldn't let go of.

"Yu Qiulin, do you really like sleeping with married women that much?"

"Could it be that I've been waiting for you to beg me all along?"

She lay calmly on the sofa and negotiated with him:

"Money or sex. Pick one."

If she wanted to bring down a kingdom by herself, she couldn't afford to offend anyone.

Whoever could give her what she wanted, she would grant his wish.

Ambitious doctoral student x older corporate hunter and CEO x younger loyal puppy, a former esports player turned financier

|1V2| Rivalry between two men | Stealing someone's partner | Love and hatred entangled | Male leads are virgins |

[Reader's Guide]

* 1. The ending is 1V1, HE.

* 2. This is a story about the heroine's growth. It covers four stages: her life among the wealthy, marriage, building a career, and finding her final destination. It is not solely a romance. This is a realistic, plot-driven story, and none of the important characters are perfect. They all have their own growth arcs.

* 3. The two male characters appear at different points in the story. There is no single designated male lead. This is not a stock-picking story. The plot forms a complete whole, the ending will not change, and there will be no alternate routes.

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1

Tan Jinyue went to Southeast Asia to make an unfinished video for her idol.

She didn't finish filming the video, but she did sleep with her idol's ex first.

She thought it was just loneliness getting the better of her, and that neither of them would take it seriously.

After all, aside from being good-looking, he couldn't say a single nice thing.

She thought she was a wildcat running into a stubborn dog. He thought she was a weasel wishing a chicken a happy new year.

Neither of them was going to make things easy for the other.

"He Feng, are you a dog or something? Are you planning to keep this up all night?"

"Yeah." He looked up at her, his gaze unmistakably like that of the weasel wishing the chicken a happy new year. "Neither of us is sleeping tonight."

He wasn't gentle or considerate, paid no attention to her moods, and never explained himself. Every day, he danced on her last nerve.

She sneered. "A man like that deserves to get dumped."

2.

The three things He Feng hated most in life:

Being filmed, being lied to, and being abandoned.

Until he met Tan Jinyue.

That foolish woman who was willing to risk her life just to film a pointless documentary.

Even a guy like him, with the internet speed of a 2G phone, knew that these days people would rather watch girl groups do suggestive dances. Nobody wanted to hear the stories of old things anymore.

Yet she stubbornly insisted on doing everything by hand.

He couldn't figure out what kind of magic she had.

He knew she might film him, lie to him, or leave him behind, and yet he still got involved with her.

3

Later, she returned home.

Only then did she realize just how much footage of him she had shot.

She thought she was doing fieldwork: documenting Southeast Asia, its people, and the stories that had been forgotten.

But he was the only male lead in her footage.

Her idol learned to let go. She couldn't.

In the end, she edited everything about him into a video that only she could watch.

The final line in the video was the confession she would never be able to say aloud:

--If I could turn back time, I would still choose to come here and fall in love with you.

Something Tan Jinyue didn't know:

He Feng never rented out that old house again.

He kept listing it online, but never rented it to anyone.

It seemed he couldn't learn to let go either.

But he knew she didn't belong there.

So he didn't intend to let her find out.

[Independent documentary filmmaker x sharp-tongued orchard caretaker]

Road trip story | Second chance romance | Love grows over time | A couple always at odds | Mutual healing

Theme: Good people aren't necessarily selfless, and even bad people can have kind hearts.