For three years, outsiders praised Zhong Ci for having found herself a good husband, until his mistress showed up with a child. Only then did Zhong Ci realize that, in her husband's eyes, she was nothing more than a pretty ornament, not even worthy of asking for a divorce.
She thought she would just keep living like this, until one day she woke up to discover that she had actually gotten divorced.
Meanwhile, Xie Yixiao returned to the country.
When people brought up how fiercely Xie Yixiao had pursued Zhong Ci back then, everyone speculated that he had come back for her.
Xie Yixiao replied, "Heh."
Someone revealed that Xie Yixiao had had who-knows-how-many girlfriends by now, and that he was supposedly pursuing a top actress with stunning looks. They said he had come back for her.
Onlookers: "Men really have no idea what it means to be faithful."
Months later, Xie Yixiao had a girlfriend, and the woman who returned to the screen and won Best Actress was... Zhong Ci.
Onlookers: "??? Damn it! A man's words are as good as a liar's."
One morning two years later, Xie Yixiao rolled over and kissed the woman beside him awake. Looking into her eyes, he sighed, "Back then, I was young and hotheaded, and I pursued you a little too fiercely. It took me a while to realize that too much of a good thing is no good."
So he carefully put away his fangs and hid his claws, winning her over little by little until he had lured her home.
Reading Guide: A sweet romance with no angst. The author has gone crazy and is letting loose.
Up next: "Where Fireworks Burn"
Blurb:
In the capital, people always speak of Chi Yan with scorn.
After Chi Ye cheated, the actress Wei Jinshu insisted on a divorce, causing a huge commotion throughout the capital. Chi Yan was only ten at the time. With a cold expression, she said, "I choose Father."
To keep living the wealthy life, she could abandon her disgraced birth mother after her court case ended in defeat, bow and scrape to her newly installed stepmother, and smile at her two half-siblings.
Yet no one could deny that Chi Yan was breathtakingly beautiful, with a figure no socialite heiress could match. Her rare smile, in particular, was enough to make many people gladly fall at her feet.
Chi Yan thought her goals were clear enough: outmaneuver her stepmother and fight her two siblings for the family fortune.
Then she met a man with half-lidded, foxlike eyes. He pursed his thin lips and offered to help her, then ruined several of her major deals, claiming it had been an accident. Now she had a new goal.
Kill Lin Ran.
Lin Ran clicked his tongue, his casual tone laced with mockery. "Well, then, why not marry me?"
Not long after, on their wedding night, Chi Yan kicked the sleeping man off the bed and offered no apology. "Ah, sorry. My foot slipped."
Intended theme:
Her mother is no longer just proud; she's all bark and no bite, a bully who preys on the weak and fears the strong, and a vain person.
This kind of person doesn't deserve to be a mother. Is your daughter something you can sell?
The female lead's mother is really infuriating, and I also find the idea of the male lead pursuing the female lead by starting with her mother very uncomfortable.
However, I'd like to point out a bug to the author.
To be honest, it was an infuriating reading experience.
This female lead is absolutely suffocating; "stupid" doesn't even begin to describe it. She must be mentally ill! The plot is so idiotic, created solely to advance the main characters' storyline.
Is there something wrong with the female lead?
Is the female lead really that naive and innocent? Anyone with a brain fart would know it's a setup.
To portray someone in the entertainment industry as an innocent, naive person? How idiotic!
I'd like to ask if the male lead has many ex-girlfriends?