Name: Embers Set the Prairie Ablaze
Author: Yishui Thirteen

Synopsis

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[Please visit my author page and bookmark my groveling romance, I'll Stay with You. Blurb below.]

Liang Zhi always knew that Qin Qu married her only to defy his family's arrangements.

Even after she got her wish and became the envy of everyone as Mrs. Qin, she would never be able to enter his heart.

So she carefully hid her seven-year-long crush and played the role of his “shield” with quiet obedience, never uttering a word of complaint.

She also knew that Qin Qu had a white moonlight in his heart.

The day his white moonlight returned would be the day she obediently gave up her place as Mrs. Qin.

So when she heard that his white moonlight had returned, Liang Zhi decided to ask for a divorce first.

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The day Liang Zhi mailed back her ring, Qin Qu thought she was throwing a tantrum. He simply laughed it off, not even sparing it a second glance.

After all, she had always been the one to back down.

He never imagined that, for every night over the next three years, he'd lie awake regretting what he'd done that day, eyes red, as if his heart were being torn to pieces.

He never imagined that the girl who had once had eyes only for him could be so resolute once she stopped loving him.

No matter how desperately he begged, she wouldn't even turn around.

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Later.

No one could have imagined that Qin, a man known for being carefree and laid-back, would brave the snowstorm and wait all night outside a little wooden cabin.

Snow piled on his shoulders, but he barely noticed.

Inside, the fire roared in the stove, its light reflected in the window.

The woman by the window didn't look his way once. As she lifted a hand to brush back her hair, the diamond ring on her ring finger flashed with a blinding light.

Qin Qu curled his lips, refusing to leave.

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When I love you with unwavering devotion, even dying embers can start a raging fire.

-Gentle but stubborn x carefree and cold

-They are each other's only love, happy ending. The heroine doesn't marry anyone else.

-Grovelling husband, heartbreak, and melodrama warning.

-The author really can't write blurbs. I'm banging my head on the floor, please click through and give the story a look, qwq.

-Daily updates at 9 p.m. Any other update notices are just typo fixes.

All professional details are made up. Don't scrutinize them; just read for fun.

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[Blurb for I'll Stay with You]

Jin Lin of Jianming High School is strikingly handsome, with a bad-boy edge. Rumor has it that his family is well-off. He's good at fighting, always has a new girlfriend, and is the notorious troublemaker teachers find hardest to deal with. He's also the school's most adored and dazzling star.

Cong Yu has one wish:

To stay by Jin Lin's side.

One night, he looked down at her, soaked, disheveled, and homeless. He gave a lazy smile and held out his hand.

Taking Jin Lin's hand that night was the craziest thing Cong Yu had done in her first eighteen years.

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At university, Jin Lin was as rich and popular as ever, surrounded by girls and living a wild, pleasure-filled life.

Everyone knew there was always a girl trailing after him. They all joked that he was such a scoundrel, and wondered how she could put up with him.

Only Cong Yu knew that she was nothing but a diversion he'd picked up.

So many people had come and gone from his life over the years, but he had never truly touched her.

She had seen every side of Jin Lin, except the side of him in love.

Until the day she packed her things to leave. The man pinned her against the door, eyes bloodshot and dark emotions roiling in their depths.

Their breaths mingled as he lifted her chin, his voice thick with tightly restrained menace