Clear Skies After the Blizzard

Qin Zheng × Tang Yechen

He is the famous illegitimate son of a wealthy Hong Kong family.

At fifteen, in the early autumn, he fell in love at first sight with his mother's lover, Ye Zhinan, and exiled himself to Britain because of it.

At twenty-four, in the height of summer, he returned to Hong Kong and founded Feichen Capital, quickly making a name for himself in the investment world. Early the following spring, he moved the company to the city where Ye Zhinan lived, hoping to ensnare the man he loved in an inescapable net.

Ye Zhinan already loved someone else. Turning love into hatred, he destroyed the career Ye Zhinan valued most, Best Auction House. He was promptly struck back against, and his father and elder brother pushed him to the margins. He lost Feichen Capital and his future, suffering complete defeat.

Autumn came late that year, when he was twenty-eight. On a basketball court on a city street in the middle of the night, the teenage Qin Zheng played basketball alone. He sat on a bench and watched, already knowing everything about Qin Zheng:

The second son of Qin Wang, a prominent city magnate. His mother had become his father's mistress and risen to her current position, so neither she nor her son was accepted by the great family. Qin Wang favored his eldest son, Qin Shan, as his heir.

Their backgrounds and experiences were so alike, and Qin Zheng was barely nineteen, which meant he would surely be easy to control. He would help Qin Zheng defeat Qin Shan, while using him as a stepping stone to make his own comeback.

Under the stars, the teenage Qin Zheng tossed the basketball and said to him, “Hi.”

He came under an assumed name, setting out on the path that would shape his destiny for the rest of his life.

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The story begins with his (Tang Yechen's) encounter with Qin Zheng. The parts about Ye Zhinan in the blurb are backstory, woven into the main story as memories. Anyone interested in the details can visit the author's profile and read Above the Glittering Lights, but this novel stands on its own, and you can enjoy it without reading that one.

Warning: This novel has a happy ending. However, it is heartbreaking if you have read Above the Glittering Lights, so readers of that novel are advised not to read this one. Proceed with caution, proceed with caution, proceed with caution.

Theme: The way you love someone else is so beautiful that I can't help falling in love with you.