The Protagonist's Love Interest Broke Down After I Ran Away [Book Transmigration]

One-line pitch: A young master loves his wife without realizing it, drives her away through his own behavior, and only then discovers he can't live without her. A melodramatic love story where he has to win her back. Jiang Youling was adopted by the Qin family ten years ago and spent five years as the young master of the Qin family's personal assistant. Steady, capable, and tireless, he was recognized throughout the company as the model overworked employee. One day, he discovered that he was inside a novel, and his direct supervisor, Qin Yu, was the male lead. He was the villainous supporting male character in the leads' beautiful love story. Before long, he would persecute the male lead's love interest out of jealousy, get fired by Qin Yu, then grow resentful and leak company secrets, eventually ending up on the streets and dying miserably. Hardworking office drone Jiang Youling: ? His loyalty to the company was beyond question. Every year, he got the highest possible performance rating. How could Qin Yu just fire him without even giving him severance pay of N+1 months' salary? That violated labor law! But, as it happened, this job paid well and demanded even more, and his boss was impossible to please. Jiang Youling had long wanted to quit. In the spirit of doing a good job right up to his last day, Jiang Youling handed over his work and arranged for the male lead's love interest to join the company. There was just one little mishap... Qin Yu slept with him, ending his twenty-something years of virginity. With everything in place, Jiang Youling picked an auspicious day, took his generous severance package, and ran. A happy retirement before thirty, here I come! · Two years later. Jiang Youling was living an easy, carefree life in a small city. Apart from occasionally feeling that someone was watching him, he had no troubles at all. Until one day, he ran into Qin Yu. After that, various coincidences kept bringing him and Qin Yu together. Fortunately, Qin Yu never mentioned his disappearance back then. He treated Jiang Youling with cool politeness, and everything seemed normal. Jiang Youling quietly breathed a sigh of relief. After getting used to a comfortable life, who would want to go back to being a villainous supporting character in someone else's love story? Until one early morning, he opened his eyes to find Qin Yu pinning him to the bed. Qin Yu even calmly locked the bedroom door. Jiang Youling: “...Are you crazy?” Qin Yu gripped his chin, his expression icy. “So you've finally figured it out.” Jiang Youling finally realized that Qin Yu had stopped being normal long ago, during the two years he had been gone. · Qin Yu had always believed Jiang Youling would stay by his side forever. When he finally understood his own feelings, Jiang Youling coldly withdrew from his world, leaving not the slightest trace behind. His dull, dreary life regained meaning the moment he saw Jiang Youling again. There was only one thing that mattered. Getting Jiang Youling back by his side. By any means necessary. If acting like a normal person couldn't make him come back... Then Qin Yu would lock him up, so he could never leave again. Please note before reading: This story is full of old-school melodrama. The love interest suffers first, then the pursuer. If you can't stand either of them being mistreated, please think carefully before reading, and be kind to yourself. The pursuer is younger. He's a different kind of problem both early and late in the story, but either way, he's a lunatic who needs to be dealt with. Only the love interest can keep him in line. If that's not your thing, proceed with caution. A sharp-tongued, shameless, later unhinged and obsessive younger pursuer with a loyal-dog streak x an emotionally steady, mature, tolerant older-brother type of love interest. One-on-one, both each other's first love, neither has been with anyone else, and the pursuer has to win his wife back. Happy ending. Fictional setting where same-sex marriage is legal. A small amount of faux-incest. An adopted son who understands his place and a spoiled young master who takes advantage of being doted on. They were never registered in the same household. The love interest once had a crush on the pursuer, but when the story begins, they are simply boss and subordinate. I'm an office drone who writes mainly for my own enjoyment. There are tons of personal worldbuilding details, lots of old-school, brainless melodrama and plot holes, and the whole plot is made up. Read with caution. I haven't written in years, so this is a writing-rehab project and may have all kinds of issues. Feel free to stay or leave; no need to tell me. Check out my completed novel, My Scum Ex Regretted It, Then the CEO Marked Me. It's a new-pursuer story, and the scum ex gets burned to ashes in the firepit of regret! Here's a preview of my next novel, available to bookmark in my author collection: Can a Beta Really Not Be Marked? Also known as: Why Isn't My Wife Pregnant With My Child Yet? Xi Hanyi is a Beta. Although he was never valued growing up and had no inheritance rights, he was still quite satisfied with his identity. That was until he had to fulfill his engagement to the Wen family. After his Omega younger brother threw a tantrum for days, their parents switched the marriage candidate to Xi Hanyi. He was forced to marry Wen Chengjun, who was rumored to be volatile and tyrannical. Fortunately, the marriage came with a condition: after three years, if Xi Hanyi still hadn't managed to get pregnant, they would divorce without any strings attached. The three-year term passed in the blink of an eye. Xi Hanyi was content to lie flat and wait to leave. But... the closer the contract deadline got, the rougher Wen Chengjun became with him. They used to have sex once a day, with weekends off. Now it was several times a day, with Wen Chengjun trying different positions and not even letting him shower afterward. After fulfilling their marital obligations once again, Xi Hanyi rubbed his aching lower back and quietly went to sleep. Wen Chengjun's face was livid as he opened his phone and crossed another item off his saved list, “Little Tricks to Help a Beta Conceive.” This stupid thing was completely useless. At first, Wen Chengjun's search history: “How to maintain boundaries with an arranged-marriage partner” Later, Wen Chengjun's search history: “Teach yourself a trick to maintain a happy marriage” “How can an excellent Alpha make his wife fall madly in love with him?” “How to open a Beta's reproductive canal” “Can a Beta really not be marked?” An Alpha-Beta romance. A Beta love interest with an exceptionally laid-back disposition x a possessive Alpha pursuer. They marry first and fall in love later. Theme: Don't give in to fate; live a life that shines