I'm High-Maintenance, So Don't Settle for Me

[Main story complete!] [Please follow my upcoming novels, He Let Go for Just One Second and I Really Didn't Mean to Flirt with You QAQ] The carefree Shi Yang was saddled by his family with a fiancee for a business marriage. His fiancee, Qu Yue, checked up on him, got jealous easily, was spoiled, clingy, and a handful. Everyone who heard about her thought it sounded suffocating, but somehow the two of them never broke up. At a bar gathering, Qu Yue urged him to go home. As her messages kept pinging, a friend teased him, "President Shi, you usually like considerate women who aren't clingy. Are you keeping her around for the holidays?" Shi Yang stubbed out his cigarette and casually replied, "She's okay." Twenty minutes later, Shi Yang arrived home with flowers to apologize for staying out late. He heard Qu Yue's soft, delicate voice complaining: "I tried, but I really can't make do with Shi Yang." "Dad, can't you find me someone else to marry?" Apparently, she hadn't succeeded. Qu Yue let out a wail. "Why hasn't he asked to break up, even though I'm being this difficult?" Shi Yang's face darkened. #It came true: was he the one she was merely settling for in this business marriage?!# #Ha. There's no way we're breaking up :)# [Thanks to Bishui Gu for the illustration.] Both are virgins. - Please follow my upcoming novel, He Let Go for Just One Second. 1 A business marriage can lead to true love. Everyone in the world knows just how much Chu Yihan loves Zhou Huaimu. This wealthy couple, with their impossibly good looks, has everyone shipping them like crazy. Work? She personally brings lunch to his office every day. She hasn't missed a day in their two years of marriage. Holidays? Chu Yihan carefully picks out gifts and creates romantic moments every day, making every day feel like Valentine's Day for Zhou Huaimu. Whenever people see them together, Chu Yihan's gaze is always warm and gentle as it rests on Zhou Huaimu, even when his former flame, the woman he could never forget, is clinging tightly to him. Just kidding. 2 That very night, Chu Yihan placed divorce papers in front of Zhou Huaimu. "Because I love you, I'll let you be with her. Let's get divorced." Tears fell from her eyes, but she forced a faint smile, as though trying to appear strong for him. Zhou Huaimu looked at her coolly for a long while, then signed the papers. What he didn't know was that Chu Yihan was thinking: Ahahaha, I'm ecstatic! Oh no, I can barely hold back my laughter! I'm finally free of this man who clearly doesn't love me but is absurdly controlling and makes me report my every move! 3 The business marriage ended in divorce, and everyone was stunned by the two years Chu Yihan had devoted to him. Zhou Huaimu's response really was far too cold. Just as the couple's fans were weeping their eyes out, the paparazzi came out with new photos! The next day, Chu Yihan began living it up, eating and drinking her way around the country to get over her failed marriage. This beautiful, tragic, resilient little enchantress was impossible not to feel for! But the paparazzi's next photo showed that whenever Chu Yihan arrived somewhere, the country's calm and composed CEO, one of the nation's top executives, would check into the very same place right after her. The couple's fans: ??? The chase-your-wife-to-the-crematorium trope! He loves her! Go, President Zhou! The world rejoiced, but Chu Yihan was held around the waist, groaning in despair: Damn his controlling streak. He only let go for one second, didn't he? The second he signed the papers! - Please follow my upcoming novel, I Really Didn't Mean to Flirt with You QAQ. The family's investments failed, so Ye Zhizhi, who was practically invisible at home, was pushed into a business marriage! She couldn't reveal her hand just yet, so Ye Zhizhi planned to put on an act and back off once the situation was resolved. In that case, finding a notorious playboy who dates around and comes from a vastly different background, someone she definitely couldn't end up with, seemed like a good choice. By chance, Ye Zhizhi learned about the young master of the Fu family, who was said to be insanely rich and easy to break up with. Ye Zhizhi decided to flirt with him and found a way into the birthday party of the Fu family's supposedly most obsessive and cold-blooded heir. She met him in a small courtyard under the dark night sky. The man swept his cold, deep gaze over her. Ye Zhizhi thought she might have the wrong person, but after she actually tried flirting with him, she found that the playboy Fu really was easy to charm. Even though she was pretty awkward at it, she eventually won him over. A few months later, when the situation was resolved, Ye Zhizhi started thinking about breaking up. But as soon as she said she was bored, someone stole her line. A man whose features vaguely resembled those of the person beside her smiled arrogantly. "I'm bored. Let's break up. You know I'm a playboy." After hanging up, the man saw the man beside her and went pale with fright. "Cousin, I'm sorry! I won't do it again!" After the real playboy Fu left, Ye Zhizhi looked at the gloomy, cold-faced man in front of her as he slowly approached, blocking off every escape route. She swallowed nervously. She's doomed. She flirted with the wrong man! How is she going to explain that he really wasn't the one she meant to flirt with QAQ! #Bored?# #Ha. Change positions and you won't be bored anymore.# Theme: Don't settle. Strive for a better life!