Driving Rain

On the eve of the wedding--

He Yucheng discovered that Wei Xiaoyu, whom he had doted on for four years, had been hiding a beloved first love in her heart?

At the same time, Wei Xiaoyu learned that He Yucheng's "resurrected" beloved first love had returned to the country.

It looked like this wedding wasn't going to happen.

They argued almost every day. Either he called her beloved first love a "good-for-nothing," or she stormed off in a huff, threatening to leave home.

But no matter how loudly they fought, they never truly separated.

Later, when the two of them finally ran out of things to argue about...

Only then did He Yucheng learn that the person who had made him feel threatened wasn't Wei Xiaoyu's beloved first love at all.

At most, that person was a trashy ex.

Wei Xiaoyu also realized that she was He Yucheng's first love?!

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Zhou Man, the most doted-on youngest daughter of the Zhou family, had no choice but to accept a family-arranged marriage when she was twenty.

The man she had secretly loved for years, and who had rejected her time and again, Chen Heng,

saw her off to her wedding in the name of an older brother.

But just after Zhou Man married, Chen Heng's hair turned completely white overnight, and it felt as if someone had carved a piece out of his heart.

Even if he tried not to think about her, he couldn't stop the wound from festering and spreading.

In the short span of two years, Chen Heng, who had once held little standing in the Zhou family, rose to become a powerful figure in the city. Those wealthy young men who had once looked down on him now all came to flatter him.

Among them, Zhou Man's husband, Yang Ye, was the most obsequious. He did nothing but live off his family's past fortunes and was utterly useless.

He set Zhou Man up, deliberately sending her to Chen Heng's bed, all to beg Chen Heng for resources.

He even said that as long as Chen Heng could help him restore his family's prestige,

his wife could serve as the bond between them.

Zhou Man slept very deeply.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself held tightly in Chen Heng's arms.

She thought she was dreaming.

Chen Heng's presence was still as gentle as before, but his eyes held something Zhou Man couldn't understand.

When he saw she was awake, he carefully and tenderly kissed her forehead.

She heard him soothe her softly: "Manman, don't be afraid of me."

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A few years earlier, after Zhou Man's confession was rejected, she drank herself into a stupor, and Chen Heng eventually carried her home.

The girl lounged lazily against the sofa and raised the tip of her foot to press lightly against Chen Heng's lower abdomen. "If you don't like me, why are you still so good to me?"

His fingers twitched. He slowly raised his hand, then lowered it again, never managing to touch her at all. He only murmured, "The bond between master and servant."

Back then, he wasn't worthy of her affection.

He had even thought that he would be content to remain an old dog by her side forever.

Until she ignored him and forgot him...

But as time passed, he finally understood that this wasn't enough for him.

This lowly, twisted mad dog of hers wanted to take the delicate, dewy rose apart, devour her, and meld her into his flesh and blood, never to be separated again.

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