My Private Rose [GB]

[Complicated, gloomy beauty x fragile, despondent, handsome older man; a dark love story and battle of wills]

On the day their teacher-student relationship ended, Shen Zuo'an slipped Jiang Fei a love letter, not caring that his spouse had died only six months earlier.

After school, she found the letter discarded in the trash.

*

The whole school said that Teacher Jiang was a complete hypocrite.

He brought his late wife's memorial tablet to work, yet openly harassed a graduating student on campus. It was only right that he be fired and disgraced.

Only Shen Zuo'an knew that she'd worn the style he hated most for three years to make this day possible.

*

In a manor thousands of miles away, the crash of a car sent birds flying from the woods.

She pressed pause and looked down at the melancholy, beautiful man before her. Kissing the rose he'd had tattooed on her, she spoke in a voice as sweet as honey: "Teacher Jiang, you've fallen in love with me, haven't you?"

Jiang Fei held back, suppressed himself, and finally swallowed the words he was about to say, refusing her once again.

Reader's guide:

1. Happy ending. Fourteen-year age gap. The male lead is widowed and has no previous experience with female-led relationships.

2. Female-led physical relationship throughout. Their anatomy is the same as that of ordinary people.

3. The author is mainly updating another female-led story, Painful Kiss of the Camellia. Updates to this story will be irregular, but it won't be abandoned. Read at your own risk.

Theme: Love requires facing yourself