Please Don't Break Off Our Engagement

[Next book: A short story, "O Pretending to Be an Alpha Gets Found Out by His Archrival." It won't be long.]

[The book after that: "Surrender." Thanks for adding it to your collections!!!]

The eldest daughter of the Jiang family is stubborn to the core, bright and flamboyant, and a free-spirited woman who doesn't believe in marriage.

Just as she was imagining how to enjoy life on her own, her parents forcibly arranged a marriage for her.

Her fiancé was the Fu family's mysterious, distinguished heir.

To make him call off the engagement, Jiang Yuan tried every trick in the book. When none of them worked, she followed the example of her usual crowd of friends and made a big show of keeping a little-known actor from the bottom ranks of the industry.

For the sake of her young lover, Jiang Yuan spent lavishly, causing a stir among the wealthy elite.

Everyone was taking bets. But when the Fu family went to call off the engagement, they announced in front of everyone that the marriage alliance between the Fu and Jiang families would go ahead as planned.

Jiang Yuan smiled faintly, her expression unreadable, though inside she just wanted to curse.

If he didn't, then this heir to the Fu family must like having a vast green grassland over his head.

*

Later, one day after they had gotten together,

Jiang Yuan suddenly asked him, "If I hadn't taken a liking to you that day and brought you home, do you think we'd still be together now?"

"We would," he answered firmly.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help laughing. "You're that confident?"

He said, "You probably don't know this, but that day, I was the only one you could have taken home."

Jiang Yuan: "..."

She'd been thinking too small.

*

Yuan Yuan,

you'll never know that the always-proud and aloof Fu Zhiyu was nothing more than a poor soul who couldn't have the one he wanted.

*

Bright, rebellious heiress X gentle, scheming heir

Older woman, younger man, two years apart

My next book will be "Surrender."

This book is also called "Childhood Sweethearts Can't Beat the Newcomer."

The story of Jiang Ci, her hapless childhood friend, and his archrival.

Jiang Ci and Zhou Yuhuai are the entertainment industry's golden couple, and their fans all hope that their childhood friendship will turn into romance.

Jiang Ci, for her part, is convinced that Zhou Yuhuai could never like anyone but her.

Until a girl appears.

She comes from a fallen family and has a pretty, unremarkable face. She's inferior to Jiang Ci in every way.

But somehow, she captures all of Zhou Yuhuai's attention.

He says, "Wanyan is wonderful, kind, innocent, and strong. I'm the one who's not good enough for her."

Unwilling to hand her childhood sweetheart over to someone else, Jiang Ci comes up with a series of plans to win him back.

While carrying them out, she discovers that Zhou Yuhuai's archrival, Sang Yanli, also likes this sweet, innocent girl, so she decisively brings him into the scheme.

She helps him win Song Wanyan.

He helps her win Zhou Yuhuai.

But... halfway through the plan, she discovers that her partner has started slacking off.

Furious at his lack of ambition, Jiang Ci angrily invites him out for a meal to discuss their next move.

Halfway through her lecture, Jiang Ci runs out of patience and gets up to leave.

But he grabs hold of her.

Taking advantage of the alcohol, the influential Sang grabs her by the hem of her clothes and says coldly, "Jiang Ci, can't you tell that I'm pursuing you?"

Jiang Ci: "...I really couldn't tell."

*

Years later, after the two of them get together,

Jiang Ci asks Sang Yanli when he first started liking her.

After a long hesitation, Sang Yanli gives her an answer.

Although she'd already suspected it, Jiang Ci still feels a pang when she hears the answer.

Of course. If he hadn't already fallen so deeply for her, how could he have let her be so brazen that night?

*

[I will always surrender to you.]

[Note: This is an entertainment-industry story. It has no connection to real life.]

Radiant, captivating heroine x cold, devoted hero

Theme: Becoming someone as exceptional as you.