Claiming the Rose

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○ Next book: When He Falls in Love [Age Gap]. The blurb is at the bottom. Now updating.

[Blurb]

Spoiled Rich Girl X Poor Country Boy

A few years ago, Jiang Su cruelly toyed with a country boy. Back then, she was arrogant and willful, confident in her beauty.

She went to great lengths to make him fall for her. But when the green boy was completely head over heels, she lost interest, dumped him without a second thought, and returned to B City.

Red gleamed in Song Yu's dark eyes. He clenched his jaw and asked her, "Why?"

Sitting in her luxury car, she blew on her scarlet fingertips and smiled, sweet and innocent. "I was just messing with you, silly."

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When they met again, she never imagined that the poor, insecure boy from back then would grow up to become a notorious force in B City's venture capital scene.

People in the industry joked that Song Yu was like a starving wolf who'd caught the scent of blood. He never let any opportunity to double his assets slip by, working himself to the bone to make money.

Only Song Yu knew that he had worked himself to the bone all these years because he hated her. But the more he hated her, the more clearly he remembered her.

Every one of her expressions and smiles, the dimples at the corners of her lips, even the mole behind her ear, he remembered it all perfectly.

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Word around the city was that Song Yu, a big shot in B City's venture capital scene, was dating Jiang Su, the second daughter of Jiang Group. Everyone said this was Jiang Group's last desperate attempt before bankruptcy and liquidation, hoping to tie down the rising Song Yu through marriage.

But no one knew that Song Yu had only fallen in love once in his life. His moonlight and his red rose had always been the same person, from the very beginning until now. That had never changed.

#Keep the rose and moonlight all to yourself, then grant the world the ultimate romance in the universe#

○ Upcoming book: When He Falls in Love [Age Gap]. Now updating. Visit my author page to read.

*Fake uncle and niece

#Love that cannot be spoken aloud is like red wine in a bottle, growing stronger the longer it is kept hidden.#

Jiang Sui was only in eighth grade when her birth parents found her. She left the small town where she'd lived for over a decade and came to B City, growing up by Qin Yanchuan's side.

To everyone else, Qin Yanchuan was cold and distant, with a reputation for his ruthless methods. Everyone knew he was the one person in the Zhou family you must never offend.

Once they learned that a much younger girl often followed him around, everyone assumed the poor little girl must be subjected to his coldness all the time.

They figured her young heart was bound to break.

Then, years later, at the Zhou patriarch's birthday celebration, someone saw the man who always kept his emotions in check looking livid as he gripped the young woman's waist and demanded, "How come you never smile so happily when you're talking to me?"

The passerby sucked in a breath, about to step in and mediate, when the young woman looked up at him. "Uncle Qin, are you mad? Should I make it up to you?"

Then she rose on tiptoe and kissed his cheek.

The usually stern look on Qin Yanchuan's face melted away in an instant. He arched his narrow eyes. "I'll let you off this time."

The passerby: "..."

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Later, Qin Yanchuan brought her along to a gathering with his friends.

Jiang Sui saw the older men she'd always casually called Uncle and blushed as she fumbled over whether to call them by their first names.

One of them frowned in surprise. "Young lady, aren't you getting the generations mixed up? Last month you still called me Uncle Liang."

Qin Yanchuan said casually, "There's no mix-up. From now on, remember to call her your sister-in-law."

His friend: "Damn... You're an absolute animal, aren't you?"

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Reader's guide:

1. The leads have a twelve-year age gap and are not related by blood, guardianship, or family ties.

2. No intimacy or romantic tension before she reaches adulthood.

3. Fake uncle and niece, angsty at first, sweet later.

Theme: Never give up, even when facing hardship.