Butterflies After the Rain

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Cool on the outside, warm on the inside sweetheart x refined, gentle, slightly possessive man

Comic artist x rising tech tycoon

[Devoted male lead / Reunion after separation / Mutual salvation / Both wholeheartedly choosing each other / Warm and healing / No angst]

[Next books: Age-gap married life, Morning Heartbeat; adult romance with an age gap, Highest Heaven. Please add them to your reading list and follow my author page!]

When Gu Xingluo met Jiang Yanchen again, it was one evening when she was completely unprepared.

Rain poured down that night. She didn't have time to pack her things and hurried to the subway station with her books, hoping to catch the last train. But from a distance, she saw a black Phantom parked beneath her office building.

The window was half open. No one knew how long he had been waiting, but the sleeves of his shirt were soaked with rain.

His profile was cool and sharply defined, his features deep-set, just as she remembered.

Like a dream she'd relived for years.

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She lowered her head and hurried into the subway station. By the time she got home, her heart was racing.

In the middle of the night, she saw someone post a photo in the residents' group chat.

A figure stood in the rain, slender and resolute, holding an umbrella and waiting in the same spot for the entire night.

Gu Xingluo jolted awake and ran downstairs without a second thought.

The rain was pouring, and his clothes had long since soaked through.

Gu Xingluo walked up to him and greeted him through her tears. The bitterness she had carried for years crumbled in their familiar embrace. She asked timidly, "Jiang Yanchen, did you come back for me?"

He instinctively held her tighter. "Do you still want me?"

Do you still want me, as we once did, when we leaned on each other for warmth in our own little worlds?

-

Everyone said Jiang Yanchen came from a distinguished family and kept to himself most of the time.

But later, a photo came to light: the elegant, aloof man sat on a sandalwood chair in a rose garden, butterflies fluttering among the roses. His shirt hung open, revealing his shoulders and collarbone, and a butterfly tattoo was hidden over his heart.

His gaze was turned to the girl beside him. She knelt by his side, focused on her drawing board, a diamond anklet worth a fortune tied around her pale ankle. Jiang Yanchen gazed at her, reverent yet hiding his longing.

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"When I was seventeen, I watched butterflies dance through a wild field of roses with you. One landed on your hand, and you fell into my heart. You, and that day when we were seventeen, have been the longing I've clung to almost obsessively all my life."

Xingxing, when you weren't by my side, I loved you again and again, countless times, without pause, day or night.

The world is in ruins, and you are the one gift Heaven gave me.

Reading notes:

1. This is a devoted-male-lead romance. There are no other women or groveling-and-regret plotlines. Meng Wuyue only writes sweet romances where both leads choose each other. My heroine will never be hurt by the hero. I'm saying this upfront. Please follow my author page, muah.

[P.S. Because of my personal preferences, I only write romances with devoted male leads. There are no ex-girlfriends, first loves, or other female rivals, and no groveling-and-regret plotlines. The heroine will never be hurt by the hero. I'm being very serious about this. It's a very gentle, sweet story with no angst.

2. This is a reunion after a long separation, not a rekindled romance after a breakup. The story's logic is consistent.

3. A very gentle, purely sweet romance.

4. Copyright protection will be registered after the story begins. Don't plagiarize, copy the premise, or pirate it.

6. This novel is published exclusively on Jinjiang Literature City.

7. The original blurb was screenshotted on 2021.03.09 and revised on 2021.07.15, 2021.11.14, and 2022.07.11. Screenshots have been uploaded as proof.

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Blurb for Morning Heartbeat:

[Love after marriage]

Sweet, gentle college student x refined, gentle older man

[Ten-year age gap / Devoted male lead / All-sweet married-life romance]

When Ruan Nian first married Liang Xiwen, it was only their third dramatic encounter.

She had little standing in the Ruan family and was a pitiful girl raised by her grandmother.

The Ruan and Liang families had arranged their engagement early on, but her fiance was a notorious playboy, leaving her to clean up his messes.

One day, entertainment reporters caught her fiance going in and out of a hotel with a supermodel. Ruan Nian helplessly tried to explain things outside when a black Bentley pulled up at the hotel entrance. The man who stepped out was refined and handsome, his shirt immaculate and his suit dark, with an air of mature elegance. He was her fiance's uncle, Liang Xiwen.

He smiled faintly. "Go get some rest. I'll take care of it."

That evening, the Liang family mansion blazed with lights.

Her fiance vowed to defend his freedom, Old Master Liang's blood pressure shot up in anger, and the Liang family descended into chaos.

Ruan Nian sat anxiously in the redwood-paneled living room while Liang Xiwen calmly made tea by the coffee table. She stole a glance at him. He was composed and graceful, as refreshing as a gentle breeze and bright moon, with a sensually alluring wrist visible beneath his shirt cuff.

A few seconds later, he handed her a cup of hot tea. "The civil affairs bureau opens at eight tomorrow. Shall I pick you up?"

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Ruan Nian thought this was a business marriage, with no real feelings involved.

She had only heard that Liang Xiwen came from a prominent family, had spent years building the family's business overseas, and was intensely career-driven. He seemed like a man who kept people at arm's length.

Ruan Nian carefully maintained a proper "business partnership" with him. He was ten years older, steady and reliable, and impossible for her to read, so naturally she had no expectations.

Then one day, to her surprise, she discovered that he had memorized her birthday, their wedding anniversary, and even her irregular menstrual cycle...

One night, Ruan Nian belatedly realized something was off. Liang Xiwen was far too attentive and indulgent toward her.

Ruan Nian hesitated for a few seconds. "Liang Xiwen, do we have a post-marriage agreement?"

The man had just come out of the bathroom and stood before the mirror, his deep-set features slightly damp. He asked gently, "For example?"

Ruan Nian nervously looked away. "For example, does it say... how many years the agreement lasts?"

Liang Xiwen smiled without answering.

After nightfall, just as Ruan Nian was about to fall asleep, she realized the man had pulled her into his arms. His warm breath carried the cool, alluring scent of incense. "Have I done anything in this marriage that has made you unhappy? Tell me, and I'll be more careful from now on."

Reading tips:

1. Devoted male lead, ten-year age gap.

2. A day-to-day story about love after marriage. Purely sweet, with no female rivals.

Screenshotted on November 16, 2021, and revised on July 5, 2022. All versions have been screenshotted and archived.

Theme: Respect and equality.