A Tangled, Misaligned Love [The Ex-Wife's Revenge]

[Reader comments are open; the main story is complete, and I'm revising earlier chapters and updating the extras...]

Possessive CEO finally bows his head × dazzling legal star

Shen Shuyu had a campus first love that left an indelible mark on her heart.

Back then, he was passionate, sincere, pure, and open. He was the kind of person who seemed to shine in the sunlight.

He was exactly her type, and she loved him with all her heart.

But he disappeared the day after their graduation ceremony.

She never imagined she would see him again seven years later, at a legal consultation meeting for the multinational conglomerate Hengtong.

He was a little thinner than he had been seven years ago, his features more sharply defined, his expression so cold and hard that he hardly looked like the face she had seen countless times.

And the president of Hengtong's subsidiary addressed him respectfully as "President Gu."

She repeatedly reminded herself that the gulf between their social classes was too wide, and she couldn't make the same mistake again.

Yet, after his relentless pursuit, she crumbled once more.

"Look up. Look at me."

"Just look at me one more time." He had shed all his pride, his voice low and hoarse, yearning with barely contained desire. For a moment, it was just like that noisy summer seven years ago, with the cicadas shrilling, as if not a thing had changed.

He drew her around, and her back collided with the edge of the sink. The pain in her waist nearly brought tears to her eyes.

His chin rested in the hollow of her shoulder, his forehead pressed to the side of her neck. His breath burned against her skin, leaving it tingling.

"Will you stay right here and wait for me?" His voice seemed to have gone hoarse. Beneath his innocent expression, a quiet persuasion was at work.

"Gu Jun, do you know what you're doing?"

"It doesn't matter."

As he answered, he bent down and pressed his thin lips to the tear about to fall from the corner of her eye, pouring all the possessiveness from his dreams into that gentle kiss.

After they got back together, he treated her very well, lavishing her with material comforts as if he were desperately trying to make up for the seven years they'd lost.

Anyone who craved material comforts could sink into a life of ease with him, gradually losing the strength to resist.

He swept her into his arms, looped his tie around her wrist, and asked softly, "Since you've already given in, why not give in completely?"

Wouldn't it be better to enter his world?

Wouldn't seeing the view from the summit be more interesting than struggling to become a junior partner?

But she was Shen Shuyu, the youngest lead counsel in London's 670-million-dollar arbitration case.

She would not become a caged canary.

Reading Guide:

Business intrigue, power plays between capitalists, boardroom infighting, hostile takeovers, personal growth, a remorseful pursuit of his wife, rekindled love after a breakup, an ambitious heroine's comeback.

A plot-driven story, with independent business and career storylines.

Gu Jun and Shen Shuyu were forced apart by their different social classes. After Gu Jun fought to gain power, he reunited with Shen Shuyu, and they got back together. But later, he forcibly took her to the city he ran, setting off a remorseful pursuit.

1. Plot-driven, rekindled love after a breakup, bittersweet push and pull, a remorseful pursuit.

2. Both leads have only been with each other; they're each other's first love.

3. Gu Jun had a reason for cutting off all contact back then. He endured it for seven years and loves her desperately! He loves her even when he keeps her by his side!

4. Shen Shuyu is independent and clear-headed, with her own career storyline. She will never settle for becoming a caged bird.

5. The real pursuit of his wife begins when Shen Shuyu takes flight, free as a bird.

Theme: From worlds apart to standing as equals, an ambitious heroine's comeback.