Gray Fireworks

All the bonus chapters are treats and will be updated over time~ I'll try to finish them by June 15.

Male lead: scheming old fox / refined scoundrel

Female lead: clear-headed and resilient / a fairy born knowing how to love

Second male lead: gloomy ghost / a little twisted

1.

Yang Luo has been harassed by the Lin family's second son for years, and it's made her miserable.

While on a business trip in France, she decided to let loose and slept with a man. He had a refined accent and was handsome and dashing. She might as well enjoy him while she could.

Yang Luo returned home and decided to leave the past behind and focus on work, but on her very first day at the office, she ran into that man from abroad.

Now he was the CEO of Lingchuan Group, her client. He pretended not to know her and held out his hand. "Hello, I'm Lu Yantang."

He looked as magnanimous as if he didn't mind what had happened at all.

But Yang Luo knew that in the narrow, dark stairwell, he'd pinned her against the wall with the same domineering intensity as that night, showing no intention of letting her go.

2.

Among Beijing's most eligible bachelors, Lu Yantang is in a class of his own.

He's notorious as a living King of Hell. He rose to power as an illegitimate son, and now holds all the cards, ruthless and merciless.

In Yang Luo's eyes, Lu Yantang is a businessman through and through, pursuing profit at all costs and stopping at nothing.

He looks down on men who fly into a rage for a woman. To him, love has never been worth a second thought.

Until he challenged the Lin family of Hong Kong for her sake, rescuing her from Lin Jize at any cost.

Yang Luo asked him, "Aren't you a businessman? You never make a deal at a loss."

What she really meant was that she wasn't worth it.

Lu Yantang only smiled faintly, his eyes unfathomably deep.

"Spending a fortune for a beauty is a good story to tell when I'm old. It's worth it."

3.

Even after sharing a bed with Lu Yantang for so long, Yang Luo still feels she doesn't understand him.

Can someone who has never been loved love someone else?

She doubts it, yet she's already fallen deep.

Later, she finally understands: the love in him was utterly twisted by his miserable past.

Possession is his love. Invasion is his love. Even hatred is love.

Just as that night, when he knelt before her and forced her to wear the wedding ring. He was clearly the one begging, yet he left her no room to resist.

"Yang Luo, you will marry me."

Content warnings:

1. This free-spirited author doesn't write virgins. No characters are virgins in this story.

2. No one is perfect. Every character has something worth criticizing.

3. The second male lead and the female lead have a deep and complicated relationship, and he gets plenty of page time.

4. There are elements of coercive possession.

5. If this is your thing, come take a look. If not, please don't read it. Thanks!

Theme: True love means freedom