Late Night

[Some affections quietly grow in the thoughts of the late night]

Zhou Yuyan first met Wen Ying when he was fifteen.

The girl held a love letter in her hands, smiling brightly, her radiance outshining that spring.

She confessed her feelings to him, giving him hope.

But just as he fell deeply for her, she shattered that hope with her own hands.

"You really thought I liked you?" Wen Ying's lips curled in a mocking smile. "It was just a bet."

After they broke up, Zhou Yuyan went abroad to study.

Through countless nights in a foreign land, his longing for her never faded. Instead, it grew more intense by the day.

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They met again at his older brother Zhou Yuran's engagement party.

Wen Ying arrived with Zhou Yuran.

She held the man's arm, dressed in a long, pale-colored gown, beautiful as a fairy who had fallen to earth.

Zhou Yuran took Wen Ying's hand and introduced her. "Yuyan, this is Wen Ying. She'll be family from now on, so call her Sister-in-law."

Bitterness caught in Zhou Yuyan's throat.

He watched her coldly, not saying a word.

Wen Ying glanced at him and smiled radiantly. "It's fine. If you don't want to call me that, don't."

Before the engagement ceremony had even ended, Zhou Yuyan found Wen Ying alone at the dance and forcefully grabbed her wrist, pulling her into a secluded corner of the emergency stairwell.

He kissed her furiously, his voice hoarse as he ground out, "Wen Ying..."

"You won't enter the Zhou family without my approval. Don't even think about it."

Word spread that the engagement between Miss Wen and the eldest son of the Zhou family had no foundation in love. A few months later, they even broke it off in front of their elders.

Everyone assumed Wen Ying would be utterly crushed, with no chance of ever making a comeback. For a time, the taunts were endless.

Not long afterward, Wen Ying and Zhou Yuyan were photographed together.

At the end of a recent banquet,

the woman leaned against a car, looking tired.

Zhou Yuyan bent down, willingly kneeling before her in humble submission, just to patiently adjust the fastening on her high heel...

The photo set all of Jingcheng abuzz.

Everyone finally understood:

The engagement had not been called off because Wen Ying was out of favor. The person doting on her was simply someone else.

*After breaking up with her first love, the male lead's unattainable ideal, the heroine ends up becoming his sister-in-law by a twist of fate, and he sets out to win her back.

*The heroine and the older brother are in a purely business-oriented marriage alliance, using each other, with no intimacy between them.