Seeking Favor

Sheng Yunguang and Shao Xunli's marriage was a sham from the very beginning.

Shao Xunli was cold and unfeeling, yet his heart belonged to a white moonlight. The ridiculous part was that his white moonlight already had a proper boyfriend. Shao Xunli was twisted enough to spend every day scheming to steal her away.

After marrying Shao Xunli, Sheng Yunguang had nothing to do. Her greatest pleasure every day was watching her husband and his white moonlight act out their grudges and entanglements. She was living the good life, carefree and happy.

But then one day, Sheng Yunguang noticed that Shao Xunli was looking at her with an increasingly intense and complicated gaze.

Knowing she was in the way of his pursuit of his white moonlight, Sheng Yunguang packed her bags and ran. She never expected the seriously unhinged man to use every means at his disposal to drag her back. After going back and forth three or five times, he suddenly demanded hysterically, "Why don't you want me!"

Sheng Yunguang: ?

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At first, Shao Xunli found Sheng Yunguang annoying. She was always smiling, living her life at her own unhurried pace, and watching him get tangled up with other people as if she didn't care.

Gradually, he thought she was strange. She seemed unusually easygoing, able to face even the worst circumstances with equanimity.

Later, he found her infuriating. She had so many admirers, and yet he, her husband, couldn't get even a little of her attention.

Finally, as he knelt on the ground, begging her to spare him a little love, and she still looked at him calmly, Shao Xunli understood just how cold-hearted the woman he had fallen for, his wife in name, could be.

A laid-back, elegant heiress x a possessive, twisted man

Reader's note:

1. Both leads are virgins. Don't let the blurb scare you. The hero has only ever loved the heroine. He really does have a "white moonlight," but read on and you'll see there's a lot more to her than meets the eye. The heroine is a laid-back, wealthy beauty, and by the end, her calm approach to life gets her everything.

2. The hero is a little crazy and spends every day trying to get the heroine's attention. His interactions with the white moonlight in the blurb are all for show, including the way he treats her. He's either putting on an act or trying to make the heroine care. He has no genuine feelings for her at all.

3. The heroine does whatever she likes. She's great at gardening and farming, and she's already embraced a healthy, leisurely lifestyle. She's in a great place mentally and handles all the hero's outrageous antics with composure.

4. I think this is a sweet romance.

5. The hero will suffer. The early plot sets things up, and the angst begins in the middle and later parts. Don't rush; just sit back and enjoy watching him slowly fall apart.

6. A little madman pursues love. Two updates a day, a safe investment. The author deletes comments, so don't read if you can't accept that.

7. Weibo: Jinyu A. Updates every day at six in the afternoon.

Coming next: To Jasmine

Pei You first sees Xu Dongyi.

She's singing his breakout hit at a music festival in Serbia.

The song is intensely flirtatious and tangled, but she sings it with a soft, quiet gentleness.

The wind is warm that day. Xu Dongyi's gentle voice cuts through the heat. Onstage, she wears a flower by her ear: a pure white jasmine.

The wine in Pei You's throat suddenly loses its taste.

At the celebration banquet that evening, Xu Dongyi is surrounded by people, the center of attention. She smiles as she politely refuses the drinks others offer her. She's sweet and gentle, yet firm.

Pei You sits in the shadows and lazily exhales a breath of smoke. "Who is she?"

A rare note of seriousness appears on his agent's face. "The Xu family of Xuancheng. Xu Dongyi, the young daughter of the Banshan Group. Her nickname is Jasmine."

The Xu family of Xuancheng has four sons and one daughter. Their youngest, Jasmine, is adored beyond measure. Pei You has heard of her and lets out a meaningful little click of his tongue.

His agent looks alarmed. "Don't mess with her. She's out of your league!"

Pei You scoffs, stubs out his cigarette, and walks toward the girl smiling in the crowd. He drinks the ill-intentioned drink on her behalf, turns his glass upside down, and looks at the surprised young woman with a casual, almost detached gaze.

He asks,

"Miss Xu, do you have a boyfriend?"

Xu Dongyi raises her left hand, showing him the ring on her ring finger.

"Sorry, I'm engaged."

She assumes he'll give up.

But he raises an eyebrow and smiles, wild and defiant.

"That ring is ordinary. It doesn't suit you."

*

Xu Dongyi has a childhood sweetheart who is her fiance.

He's elegant and refined, like a flower on a mountaintop. He's worlds apart from a man like Pei You, who takes nothing seriously and is brimming with wildness.

Xu Dongyi has always believed they would marry.

But not long after their engagement, she sees a girl quietly sobbing in the gap between her wardrobe and the wall. Her usually composed and self-controlled fiance is holding the girl in the home that was meant to be theirs, crossing a line with her.

The man beside Xu Dongyi suddenly wraps an arm around her waist. Pei You's devilish, coaxing voice sounds in her ear.

"How pitiful."

"I can help you."

In the cramped space, their breaths mingle.

The man's warm lips brush her ear.

Close, then distant.

Pei You is a genius composer in the entertainment industry. Artists would pay a fortune for the chance to work with him.

His temperament, interests, and identity are all a mystery...

He's an exceptionally difficult man to deal with.

Later, paparazzi photograph him buying up all the jasmine in the city and laying out a flower-strewn path.

All because the young lady of the Xu family once joked,

"Jasmine has a fragrant soul, but it's delicate and hard to care for."

Pei You believes it.

But he is determined to raise this delicate flower of his until she blooms in all her glory!

After meeting Xu Dongyi, Pei You laughs at himself. He used to sneer at love, yet one day he gets drunk in a gentle embrace and hooks an arm around her slender waist to demand his due.

"You still owe me that kiss on the cheek you promised last time. Are you trying to welch again?"

Little bonus scene:

Su Wenxiu loves Xu Dongyi. Ning Keke was just a passing whim, a little seasoning in his life, nothing more. He knows that perfectly well.

Looking back, he realizes that Xu Dongyi is the one person he cannot lose. Determined to win her back, he goes to her home, where Pei You answers the door.

The man is wearing a bathrobe, his hair is a mess, and there are two delicate scratch marks on his Adam's apple. Seeing Su Wenxiu, he gives him a lazy, knowing look.

"Sorry. I just got engaged."

"..."

#Fierce and tender#

#Blazing sun and bright sunshine, a breeze and the evening light#

#Pei You and Xu Dongyi#

A fiercely independent genius composer x a gentle, composed young heiress

So baby, have a good night

Have a good night

DOOD NIGHT

Reader's note:

1. A sweet romance.

2. Bring your own fast-acting heart medicine, because it's too sweet.

Theme: Loving yourself is the best way to cultivate yourself