Scorching

Only later did Fu Sili understand that love might be this:

In a long, endless wait where no one sees you and no one cares, you endure the torment of guilt and the agony of regret. Yet as long as you think of her eyes, you can find a lifeline in that endless wait, something to keep you from being swallowed by madness.

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Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium | Fierce Love | Running Away While Pregnant | Male Lead Regrets Everything, Weeps Bitterly, and Goes Insane

That year, Xi Ying was framed by her own husband and cast aside by the translation industry. Her mother and younger brother were gravely ill, and she had nowhere left to turn.

With no other choice, she went to beg Fu Sili, the man she had once "abandoned."

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Years later, Xi Ying went to Sweden.

Fu Sili waited all night in the snow.

With bloodshot eyes, like a thief peering through a window, he stared blankly all night at the warm lights inside. His limbs were frozen and aching, but he did not even dare knock on the door.

Xi Ying walked her little one out to school, and he eagerly hurried toward them.

But he saw the child, who looked almost exactly like him, throw himself into another man's arms and kiss him, calling sweetly, "Daddy!"

His woman and child were held in someone else's arms. The happiness of their family of three nearly pierced his eyes.

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After enduring Xi Ying's countless rejections, coldness, and disregard, Fu Sili was almost in despair. Yet when he spoke, his words brimmed with the deepest, most intense, most sincere feelings, enough to melt anyone with their heat. "I know you don't believe me, but I'll spend all my time proving it to you. I'll change what you want me to change, and slowly get rid of what you hate, becoming the person you want me to be... I'll respect your wishes. I won't force you to do anything you don't want to do. But there's one thing I can never do as you wish: I can't leave you, so don't tell me to give up. You can't imagine what those three years were like for me... even if... you don't love me anymore..."

Reader's Guide:

1. The male lead does not change.

2. The motto is: Make the male lead suffer!

3. Very old-school melodrama.

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Theme: Leave some leeway when dealing with others, so you can meet again on good terms. Leave none, and you'll meet again at the crematorium.