Original title: When the Autumn Wind Rises
1. On their second wedding anniversary, Shi Leya sat motionless on the sofa until the middle of the night before Shi Chengjing finally appeared, carrying his suit jacket. His shirt was icy white, and he was tall and straight, handsome and imposing, with seven parts good looks and three parts cold indifference.
A divorce agreement lay on the black-and-gold glass table. Shi Leya followed the sound and pushed it toward him.
Shi Chengjing tossed aside his jacket and glanced at it with sharp, indifferent eyes before looking at the girl's clean, delicate face. "Don't be unreasonable."
Shi Leya lowered her long lashes and calmly told him, "This house is too big. It's too hard to be here alone."
2. When Shi Chengjing was twenty-five, he was summoned to the old master's sickbed and given two instructions: take over the family business and marry a daughter of the Shi family. He met her once. She was obedient and pretty, her features just like the girl in his memories. Only her eyes were different.
"Brother Chengjing," she called timidly, the tips of her ears turning red.
Shi Chengjing was cold and hard, iron-fisted, and focused solely on business. That was what everyone around him believed, until this woman divorced him.
One day, Shi Chengjing got blind drunk, shook off his bodyguards, tugged loose his tie, and abandoned his usual restraint. He went to find his ex-wife in the pouring rain. The former little blind girl emerged from the broadcast and television station, radiant with health, laughing and chatting with her coworkers. Her restored eyes shone like the brightest star in a summer night sky.
Shi Chengjing stood at the foot of the steps, drenched. Rain pounded against his dazed face. Through the curtain of rain, his eyes were bloodshot.
Extra scene:
Once upon a time, a beautiful little swan lived with a big tiger. Every day, the tiger went out hunting and left the little swan at home to look after the house. The little swan fell ill and was lonely, but the tiger didn't know. The tiger only knew how to hunt and didn't care about anything else. One day, the little swan disappeared, and only then did the tiger notice. He searched everywhere, but the little swan never wanted to come home again. The tiger had a bad temper and got angry. His teeth and claws were sharp, and he kept hurting the little swan.
"What happened next?" the child asked eagerly, wanting to hear the story.
The cool, stern-faced man lowered his eyes to the little one in his arms. After a long moment, a faint smile appeared on his handsome face. "Later, the little swan grew up, grew strong wings, and flew away."
"And then?"
"And then... it's time for you to sleep."
After putting the child to bed, the storyteller left the room. His shirt was icy white, and his black trousers were refined and perfectly straight. He went outside, where a car was already waiting beneath the porch. After sending everyone away, he got in alone, heading to pick up the little swan the tiger had nearly given his life to win back.
Content notes: One couple, both each other's first. The male lead is so faithful he sees no one else. Heart-wrenching, melodramatic romance. [Detailed content notes in the afterword of Chapter One.]
Theme: Fate will never be unkind to the good-hearted.
This male protagonist must be the reincarnation of a bad guy. Nothing good will happen to the female protagonist if she meets him. It's so miserable. The female protagonist makes me feel so sad.
Good, so strange. It is so well written, but so few people read it (a bit of a rhyme)
Xileya, I wish you happiness in your next life, and never meet Shi Chengjing and everyone related to him forever. You are such a good and deserving person.
The male protagonist's family is disgusting. Just because of that, I can't marry him.
I'm really, really touched. After so much, I finally came back to the other person after going around and around, woo woo woo~
My tears are worthless...
The author writes more about Yaya's performance during her pregnancy. She needs to learn the relevant knowledge carefully~
Very good, the article in my mind
I hate this male lead very much, his current behavior is very obscene
This is a novel where both the male and female protagonists are disastrous
This male protagonist must be the reincarnation of a bad guy. Nothing good will happen to the female protagonist if she meets him. It's so miserable. The female protagonist makes me feel so sad.
Good, so strange. It is so well written, but so few people read it (a bit of a rhyme)
Xileya, I wish you happiness in your next life, and never meet Shi Chengjing and everyone related to him forever. You are such a good and deserving person.
The male protagonist's family is disgusting. Just because of that, I can't marry him.
I'm really, really touched. After so much, I finally came back to the other person after going around and around, woo woo woo~
My tears are worthless...
The author writes more about Yaya's performance during her pregnancy. She needs to learn the relevant knowledge carefully~
Very good, the article in my mind
I hate this male lead very much, his current behavior is very obscene
This is a novel where both the male and female protagonists are disastrous