Gentle Submission [Stealing Someone's Lover]

Reunion after a long separation / stealing someone else’s fiancée and winning her over / age gap / a touch of a love triangle

1.

Cen Xi was raised by the Shang family from childhood and was engaged to their second son, Shang Jingxiao.

Gentle and reserved, she had always kept her distance from her rule-breaking fiancé.

They lived under the same roof, yet had hardly anything to do with each other.

When she was eighteen, the eldest brother, Shang Wenyan, brought Cen Xi before the family elders. “A Xiao doesn’t like Xixi, but I do. Give me his engagement.”

Her adoptive mother asked Cen Xi what she thought. The girl lowered her lashes, as obedient and mild as ever.

“I don’t mind.”

The engagement was called off.

Shang Jingxiao went overseas and was gone for four years.

2.

When they met again, he had found success in his career and carried himself with such elegance that he seemed untouchable.

In private, though, he was still as rebellious, carefree, and irreverent as she remembered.

Cen Xi greeted him respectfully. “Second Brother.”

Shang Jingxiao gave a careless tug at his lips. “Long time no see.”

“My former fiancée.”

Later, deep into the night, the bedroom door on the second floor of the Shang family home was shut tight.

Shang Wenyan raised a hand to knock, but got no answer for a long time.

On the other side of the door, Shang Jingxiao had Cen Xi firmly trapped in front of him.

Their heated breaths mingled. The man gently rubbed her vivid red lips. “Xixi, tell him what the two of us are to each other.”

Cen Xi turned her face away and struggled to speak. “I was supposed to be your, ”

The word “sister-in-law” had not yet left her lips.

“Mm, that’s right.” Shang Jingxiao bit open the buttons of her qipao one by one. “You were supposed to be mine.”

*Gentle heroine × mischievous, bad-boy hero. Both are virgins, and the male lead is absolutely devoted to her.

Theme: Love bravely