Empathy

Updates resumed on 2023.7.12. New chapters every night at 8. Thank you for waiting. That man saved Lu Huaishi when she was at her lowest. She saw him as her benefactor and thought he was the last ray of light heaven had left for her. Only later did Lu Huaishi learn that he and her father were sworn enemies. What she thought was a chance encounter had all been part of his plan. - Everything was going according to Ying Chong's plan, but the smoother things went, the worse he felt. He couldn't stand seeing Lu Huaishi sad or hurt. Her tears hurt him more than a knife cutting into his own flesh. So he let her go, thinking it might make things easier. Who knew that on countless nights after she left, he would lie awake missing her, clenching his teeth as he called her name again and again, staring at the scarf she had given him. - Everyone said the third son of the Ying family was the coldest of them all, with no one close to him. They assumed he would spend the rest of his life alone. But what they didn't know was that Ying Chong had once had his heart race for someone, unable to control his feelings. He had held her down and kissed her again and again, refusing to let go. In a hoarse voice, he begged in her ear, "Shishi, come back. Please." - "I thought I would hate you too, but when you truly sank into the mire, the pain cut me to the bone and tore at my heart." "Ying Chong loved with such restraint that even he never realized it." Content warnings (updated as needed based on comments): 1. He pursues his wife after she leaves; told in flashbacks. The blurb makes it clear this is not a sweet romance. 2. Both leads are each other's only partners; old-school melodrama. 3. Older woman, younger man. Theme: Fear no hardship