Leaning South

[New story now online: The Richest Man in Hong Kong [1960s]. Click the author's page to go straight to it] Melancholy, cold beauty VS proud young gentleman Nan Qing and her boyfriend agreed to get married once she graduated. But then he suddenly broke up with her. "Our relationship was a misunderstanding from the start. I've always been in love with Lin Ke." Nan Qing looked up at him and said nothing for a long time. Steam from the coffee clung to her eyelashes, and her clear eyes seemed to shimmer with water. She was calm and quiet, with a trace of confusion. She hadn't quite understood. Lin Ke was her best friend. "You misunderstood me and thought I liked you. I couldn't explain it at the time, and I was wrong to wait until now to tell you, but I can't marry you." Seeing the porcelain-white face before him turn flustered and helpless, Xu Mingyuan felt a faint sense of satisfaction well up inside him. For years, he had been unable to be with the person he loved because of Nan Qing. At last, the bitterness he'd carried was easing. He knew Nan Qing loved him dearly. She had even sold the necklace her mother left her to help him start his business. But a relationship without love or passion bored him. No matter how beautiful Nan Qing was, she was still an uninteresting ice queen. He pushed a bank card toward her. "Now we're even." Having made a success of his career, he left Nan Qing behind as if she were excess baggage. But Xu Mingyuan never expected that one day he would regret it and beg Nan Qing humbly: "I was foolish back then. I mistook someone else for the person I loved. Nan Qing... can we start over?" But now there was a young, handsome man by Nan Qing's side. Xu Mingyuan watched as the man held an umbrella and crossed through the rain to take Nan Qing away. It was as if someone had gripped his heart, and panic overwhelmed him. Only later did he learn that he hadn't been the only one mistaken. Nan Qing had also mistaken the person who'd confessed to her back then. Warnings: 1. The ex tries to win her back, but fails 2. Melodramatic Upcoming story one: The Richest Man in Hong Kong [1960s] By chance, Weiwei got hold of an old diary. The diary's owner lived in the 1960s, when food and clothing were scarce, yet she had grown up in pampered luxury. Her father was a renowned writer, her mother an architect, and her brother a marine engineer. But then the family fell on hard times, and her parents married her off to a miserly, vulgar man. The two of them were forced to flee to Hong Kong to escape persecution. The socialite was captivated by the glamour and bustle of Hong Kong, but her stingy husband was a money-grubber who only took and never spent, forcing her to live in poverty. Then she met her generous, gentlemanly first love, and forced her husband to divorce her. But she later discovered that her first love had someone else in his heart. With no skills to her name, the socialite fled her heartbreak, only to live in poverty and misery. Her former husband searched for her for years. She told him she had no regrets, and eventually he died of illness. The socialite lived with regret ever after. Before she could finish sighing over the socialite's miserable fate, Weiwei transmigrated into the diary and became the socialite, with a husband who was hers in name only. This was the perfect era to strike it rich in Hong Kong. Weiwei kicked her first love to the curb and focused on making money with her penny-pinching husband. She set herself a ten-year plan: 1. Deal in foreign currency, play the stock market, and move into real estate. In ten years, return to the mainland and help build the country. 2. Find rare antiques and manuscripts that had ended up overseas, collect foreign architectural designs, and bring her parents out of the cowshed where they were living so she could care for them in their old age. 3. Invest in shipbuilding and give her brother an ocean-going fleet. Time waits for no one, and there are plenty of obstacles on the road to wealth. Fortunately, she has a reliable teammate by her side. For a long time, Weiwei thought her husband, who was hers in name only, was a decent, pure-hearted man who loved deeply, even if he was a little stingy and miserly. Then she saw her miserly husband holding a knife in his right hand and pinning down a crime boss's hand with his left, smiling as he made the man sign a written guarantee. Only then did Weiwei realize her husband was a cold-blooded schemer who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. Weiwei wasn't frightened. She just wondered to herself if there was any hope of reforming her husband. This book is also known as The Woman in the Diary A Hong Kong period drama, with a partly fictional setting Upcoming story two: Endless Evening Sounds, please add to your reading list By-the-book beauty livestream host X gentle, refined younger man with a dark side Cheng Feng told Chi Man that he had a half-brother who was timid and withdrawn. Even when Cheng Feng took his things, the boy never said a word. He never complained when Cheng Feng hit or humiliated him. Cheng Feng planned to give his so-called little brother some money and send him away once he took over the company. But before he could take over the company, his girlfriend was stolen away by his so-called little brother. Chi Man was that girlfriend. She never imagined that the boy sitting on the sofa, adjusting his glasses and smiling at her so politely, would weave such a vast web to lure her into it. Theme: Love doesn't stop because of a misunderstanding. Happiness comes from working hard and being kind in ordinary life