The Trap of Falling in Love

[Main story complete] 1. While pursuing Jiang Shu, Qiao Fei once slipped into his hot spring pool and wrapped her arms around his neck. Her beautiful, alluring face was full of charm. "Why don't you be with me, Jiang Shu? I really like you. I'll treat you well." Jiang Shu stared straight at her. "Do you really like me that much?" After what had happened before, he had always known she was heartless. 2. But this time, she seemed to mean it. No matter how he rejected her or how coldly he treated her, she kept at it, relentlessly pursuing him until at last he believed her feelings were sincere. 3. Yet on the day they broke up, she walked away without looking back. "It was all a lie, Jiang Shu. To me, you're nothing but a tool to get revenge on my dad and your mom." 4. When they met again, she had fallen from being a rich heiress to an indebted newcomer in the entertainment industry caught up in a contract dispute. He, meanwhile, had returned to his wealthy family. With a single word, he could decide whether she lived or died. He got hold of her contract, leaving her no choice but to stay by his side. He wanted her in sight at all times. Even when he soaked in the hot springs, she had to keep him company. She handed him a towel, but he suddenly pulled her into the pool. He tried to kiss her, but she turned her head away. He scoffed and gripped her chin coldly. "What, weren't you good at this before?" He spoke each word slowly. "Qiao Fei, you owe me." She looked at him impassively. Even after going bankrupt, she seemed every bit the haughty heiress she'd always been. "Jiang Shu, I wronged you before. I can make it up to you, but no one can force me to do something I don't want to do." Jiang Shu slowly clenched his hand, then suddenly laughed. "Qiao Fei, things have changed. You don't still think I'm interested in you, do you? Don't flatter yourself." She thought Jiang Shu had kept her by his side to torment her. But after getting drunk one night, he wrapped his arms around her from behind, disheveled, and murmured unconsciously, "Qiao Qiao, don't leave me again this time. Please." Three years later, he still hadn't changed at all. He was utterly defeated. Next story: After the Concubine Runs Away Shen Jiaoniang was as lovely as her name: beautiful, seductive, and curvaceous. Xue Huaijin knew, however, what a wicked heart lay beneath that gorgeous exterior. After the Shen family fell into ruin, its family members were sold off, and Shen Jiaoniang ended up in Xue Huaijin's hands. The once-proud young lady of the Shen family had fallen into the mud. Xue Huaijin gripped her chin and tilted her face up, sneering. "Shen Jiaoniang, when you had your brother force me to marry you, drove my cousin into misery, and caused her to disappear, did you ever think this day would come?" Shen Jiaoniang was forced to meet his gaze. "Xue Huaijin, I didn't. I didn't know my brother would do that." "You think I'll believe you?" Xue Huaijin pinned her beneath him without the slightest tenderness. "You went to such lengths to marry me, didn't you? I'll give you what you wanted." Shen Jiaoniang endured endless torment in the Xue household. To get revenge, Xue Huaijin trampled her dignity and demanded her night after night until she could barely sleep. What she didn't know was that Xue Huaijin loathed her for her wicked heart (he was wrong, of course. The male lead only believed the heroine was wicked, when she was actually an innocent sweetheart), yet couldn't resist her bewitching body. Torn between these conflicting feelings, he gradually lost himself. She pretended to indulge him until she finally found a chance to escape. But on the very day she fled, she heard that the usually composed and self-controlled young master of the Xue family had completely lost control, searching frantically for his "Jiaojiao." Next story: The Substitute Lover None of Yan Yuchen's friends could help envying him. His new girlfriend, Qin Yiren, looked just like his first love, and she was as pleasant as her name suggested: not only was she beautiful, she was also gentle and agreeable. Yan Yuchen didn't think much of it. "She's just a substitute, but at least she's obedient." Yan Yuchen gave Qin Yiren almost everything she asked for, except his genuine affection. It seemed only natural that she should be obedient. They had assumed that, no matter how good Qin Yiren was to Yan Yuchen, it didn't necessarily mean she loved him that much. After all, Yan Yuchen was rich, and most women who got close to him had ulterior motives. But she was willing to risk her life to save him. They were convinced that Qin Yiren loved him deeply. Even Yan Yuchen himself thought so. She would repeatedly whisper "Chenchen" in his ear, telling him how much she loved him and that she couldn't live without him. She loved gazing quietly at him and didn't want him to speak. She said she liked him best when he was quiet. She wrote him letters, but always addressed them to "Yan Chen," leaving out one character. He always thought it was just an oversight, until he was injured in a car accident and his doctor, who was also a friend, jokingly told Qin Yiren that Yan Yuchen had been disfigured. Yan Yuchen was confident that Qin Yiren would still love him even if he really were disfigured. But that very night, she packed her things and left him. Ignoring the bandages on his face, he rushed over to confront her. For the first time in her life, she frowned at him. "Your face is already gone. If you speak, you'll look even less like him." Only later did Yan Yuchen learn that he had a younger half-brother, five years his junior, who had died in an accident a year ago. Qin Yiren had come into his life a month later. His younger brother had looked almost exactly like him. His name was Yan Chen. Theme: Take things in stride, and keep your perspective.