Heart on Fire

[My Next Novel: Night Voyage Star] Weibo: @MuTianw

Tan Ying has always known that Duan Zewen has no feelings for her at all. He simply happened to choose her to become Mrs. Duan.

She has no time to wallow in self-pity. She puts her seven-year unrequited love behind her once and for all, content to play the part of a decorative stand-in wife. She shops, swipes her cards, builds her career, and lives her own life as a wealthy widow in all but name.

After two years of a loveless marriage, the woman in Duan Zewen's heart returns.

Tan Ying has secured enough resources and decides to step aside gracefully. That very night, she prepares the divorce papers and negotiates with her husband, who shares her bed but not her dreams. "I don't ask for much. Give me a house and another fifty million to invest in my new drama. One price, no strings attached."

Unexpectedly, Duan Zewen coldly pins down the wrist she is about to use to sign, and says, "Divorce? In your dreams."

Tan Ying pauses, then gives a humorless laugh and replies, "I've always treated you like my sugar daddy. I didn't realize you were so invested in the role."

"..."

There have long been rumors in the entertainment industry that rising star Tan Ying has a powerful patron backing her, which is why her career has gone so smoothly. But no one has ever figured out who it is.

That is, until a private reception, when the Duan family's exceedingly aloof and arrogant second young master throws a glass at a greasy, famous director in the industry.

"Who do you think you are, giving my wife attitude?"

-Ask what the most beautiful thing in the world is, and love is surely a miracle.

[Content Warnings]

* A melodramatic entertainment-industry romance. The heroine is no pushover.

* You can spot all the other potential triggers in the blurb.

* The final line of the blurb is from the lyrics of "I Want to Find You."

Coming Soon: Night Voyage Star

At the start of her freshman year, Liang Keying's lost sketchbook is turned in to the lost-and-found at Jianan University.

Soon, someone anonymously submits one of her drawings to the campus confession page. Just a few strokes capture a young man sitting in a chair with his hand supporting his neck. The sketch is simple, yet remarkably lifelike.

-The face in the drawing belongs to Tang Sihuai, the renowned heartthrob of Jianan University's architecture department.

Liang Keying and Tang Sihuai went to the same high school.

Back then, Tang Sihuai was born to shine: bright-eyed, handsome, and always the center of attention, wherever he went.

Liang Keying, by contrast, was utterly unremarkable, forever able only to gaze up at him from the shadows.

After the sketchbook incident, Tang Sihuai's club holds a dinner, and someone brings it up.

Tang Sihuai is taken aback, then gives a casual laugh and replies, "Who's Liang Keying? ... Tsk, why would I like a goody-goody like that?"

That night, Liang Keying changes her unchanged-for-years profile status to: "I don't like him anymore."

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On the eve of their college graduation, a young man waits beneath the women's dorm with flowers and confesses to Liang Keying.

As she hesitates, Tang Sihuai pushes through the crowd, strides over to her, and grabs her wrist firmly.

"Xingxing, don't say yes to him. I'm begging you."

He leans close to her ear and says through gritted teeth.

Theme: Love yourself first, then love others.