A Soft Murmur

Related novel: Wild at Heart. Visit the author's page to check it out.

Five years after their breakup, Su Zhixia sees her former boyfriend, Han Qiran, at a high-society banquet. She is now an emerging jewelry designer who has just won an international award, while he has taken over the family business and become a successful young CEO.

Some of the guests had witnessed their passionate romance. Everyone knew Han Qiran had cherished Su Zhixia with all his heart. On the day they broke up, he even stood outside her dormitory in the rain for two hours, hoping she would change her mind.

But now Han Qiran looks stern and treats Su Zhixia like a stranger, unwilling to spare her even a second glance.

A friend asks Su Zhixia if she regrets her decision. She smiles calmly. "That's all in the past."

Those four words reach Han Qiran's ears and sting terribly. So when a friend asks if he still loves Su Zhixia, he pretends not to care and says with a smile, "I stopped loving her ages ago."

Su Zhixia thinks she and Han Qiran will be like parallel lines, never crossing again. But one night, he corners her beneath a streetlight while drunk, his eyes bloodshot as he accuses her: "I've never met anyone more heartless than you."

She looks up at him, tears glimmering in her eyes. The words she wants to say are swallowed between their lips.

After the kiss, he murmurs in her ear, "I'll never get over it..."

Blurb for Wild at Heart:

1.

Lin Ci has been married to Lu Shiwen for two years, but they have appeared together in public only a handful of times. She has become a laughingstock among Nancheng's socialites. She doesn't care, though, living life to the fullest: Paris this month, New York the next, snapping up every trendy luxury item and becoming a top fashion buyer.

People say Lin Ci is using all this to hide her pain, and that in private she must cry every day. Everyone suspects her marriage has long since fallen apart and that divorce is only a matter of time.

A friend asks Lin Ci what she thinks about it. She swirls her wine glass, a seductive smile playing on her red lips.

"I've got a husband who lets me use his credit card and rarely expects me to fulfill my wifely duties. I couldn't be happier."

"Divorce? Whatever. Aren't handsome younger guys much better?"

Even one-tenth of Lu Shiwen's fortune would be enough for her to live in luxury. Who wouldn't want to live like a rich woman? It would be far more carefree and enjoyable than her life now.

2.

After playing the clueless, innocent act in front of Lu Shiwen for over two years, Lin Ci has had enough. She takes the initiative and tosses him the divorce papers, hoping to get ahead of him.

But Lu Shiwen tears the papers to pieces and stares at her with a frigid expression, saying nothing.

Later, the media breaks a major scandal: Lu Shiwen was seen pinning a mysterious woman against a car and kissing her at midnight, putting his marriage to Lin Ci on the brink of collapse.

The socialites all laugh at Lin Ci for being thoroughly cuckolded. Little do they know that Lu Shiwen personally steps forward to clear things up.

"It's just a little game my wife and I play from time to time. Sorry for the misunderstanding."

[Cold and aloof at first, then paying the price later]

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