Crimson Forbidden Zone [Winning Back His Wife]

1.

Ming Fei first meets Yan Xixu three days after her parents' funeral.

She's brought to the Yan family home, where a fourteen-year-old boy in a black turtleneck slowly descends the stairs.

Sunlight filters through the glass and casts mottled shadows across him. He looks like a beautiful young man stepped out of an oil painting: distinguished and languid.

The boy stops in front of her. “Ming Fei?”

“By our family ties

“you should call me Uncle.”

2.

Yan Xixu is famous in their social circle for doting on Ming Fei.

During the ten years she lives with the Yan family, the young girl pours all her feelings into her diary. Every page is filled with the same three characters: Yan Xixu.

One day, after her confession is rejected, she gets dead drunk and is brought home late at night by a male classmate with dyed blond hair.

Yan Xixu carries her to her room, his face icy with anger.

After tossing her onto the bed, he leans over her, bracing himself on the edge. “Want to talk?”

They have a huge fight.

All the grievances she's bottled up for days burst out. She accuses him of having no right to control her when he's not her boyfriend.

He frowns at her, then, to her surprise, agrees to date her.

3.

On their first date, she steps out to change. When she returns, she sees him leaning against the glass corridor while a woman in front of him rises on tiptoe to kiss him. When their eyes meet, he raises an insouciant brow, his peach-blossom eyes charming and callous.

Just as he wants, she asks to break up. He remains nonchalant. “It's for the best. I could never be with you. Anyone but you.”

“Listen, Feifei. I can only ever be your uncle. That line can never be crossed.”

4.

Afterward, everything goes just as he hoped. Ming Fei stops harboring fantasies about him and soon gets a new boyfriend.

One day, she affectionately takes her boyfriend's arm and moves out of the Yan home. As she passes Yan Xixu, she politely and distantly calls him “Uncle.”

And from that day on, Yan Xixu changes completely.

5.

Yan Xixu has always been a mad dog. Ming Fei just never expected him to later drive away both her boyfriends by any means necessary, or even resort to destroying himself just to keep her.

But none of that has anything to do with her anymore.

She will never love him again.

Male lead has a male lead, male lead has a male lead, male lead has a male lead. This is important, so I said it three times. The kiss in the blurb is staged!

The male lead rejects the heroine at first because childhood trauma has left him afraid of intimacy. The more he cares about someone, the more afraid he is of losing them, so he wants to keep their relationship familial. The scene where he kisses another girl is deliberate acting for the heroine's benefit. Later, the male lead becomes extremely ruthless and has no morals. He'll do anything to possess the heroine again, which may upset some readers. If that's not your thing, please think carefully before buying the whole book. If it's not what you expected, stop reading rather than wasting your money.

My completed groveling-after-the-breakup novels: The Lines We Draw, My Ex Regrets It Every Day, After the Concubine Escaped

My next novel: Kiss Me Where No One Can See

When Lin Zhi is fourteen, she meets Jiang Yanci for the first time.

The boy is so beautiful that she believes angels must really exist.

Years later, when Lin Zhi recalls her first meeting with Jiang Yanci, she can only think of it as payback.

At A University, Jiang Yanci is a celebrated prodigy, a frequent subject of the campus confession wall, and the sort of person whose every move sets off long threads on the school forum. Lin Zhi, meanwhile, is quiet and keeps a low profile, barely noticed by anyone.

At the Jiang family home, Jiang Yanci is the only son of the Jiang Group's chairman and the master of the house. Lin Zhi is merely the daughter of one of the many servants employed by the Jiang family.

They seem worlds apart, with nothing to connect them.

But no one knows that every weekend morning, she wakes up aching all over in Jiang Yanci's bed.

Satisfied, Jiang Yanci holds her close, his voice languid. “Baby, why didn't you come to my game the day before yesterday? I sent you the time, didn't I?”

“And that guy you turned around and smiled at during your elective today, the one sitting behind you. Who was he?”

Lin Zhi sulkily turns her head away. She doesn't want to answer, and she's too exhausted anyway.

Jiang Yanci laughs. “Not going to tell me?”

He clicks his tongue and presses her down onto the bed. “Then let's keep going.”

If Lin Zhi had known that Jiang Yanci was a madman she could never escape once she let him get close, she wouldn't have recklessly provoked him. And she certainly wouldn't have gone to him for help with her mother's situation, then agreed to his unreasonable demands.

She is always looking for a chance to get away from him. So when the time comes, she disappears without a word on graduation day.

She thinks she and Jiang Yanci belong to different worlds, and that this is best for both of them.

After getting herself back on track, Lin Zhi finds a job. It's not exactly easy, but the company has a bright future, the pay is good, and her boss and coworkers are nice. It seems like everything is finally going well.

Until one day, a rumor spreads in the break room: the company has been acquired.

People say the new CEO is from the Jiang Group. The female employees gather to talk, and what they discuss most is his looks.

Lin Zhi's heart tightens.

Later, alone in a conference room, Jiang Yanci pins her against the floor-to-ceiling window. Her face is flushed, her body trembling with shame, and she clings weakly to his shoulders as he chuckles in her ear. “Shh, keep it down. You don't want your coworkers to hear, do you?”

He gently bites her ear, his voice muffled. “Zhi-zhi, I'm very unhappy with you. You haven't been behaving.”

“Tell me, how should I punish you this time?”

My next novel: The Replacement Lover

None of Yan Yuchen's friends can help envying him. His new girlfriend, Qin Yiren, looks just like his white moonlight, and she's as pleasant as her name suggests: not only is she beautiful, she's also gentle and sweet.

Yan Yuchen doesn't care. “She's just a replacement. The only thing she has going for her is that she's obedient.”

Yan Yuchen gives Qin Yiren almost everything she wants, except his heart. Her obedience seems only natural. At first, his friends think that no matter how good Qin Yiren is to him, she can't possibly love him that much. After all, Yan Yuchen is incredibly wealthy, and most women who approach him have ulterior motives. But she'd risked her life to save him.

So they conclude that Qin Yiren must be madly in love with him.

Even Yan Yuchen believes it.

She repeatedly calls him Yuchen with intimate affection, telling him how much she loves him and that she couldn't go on living without him.

She always likes to watch him quietly, and doesn't want him to speak. She says she likes him best when he's quiet.

She writes him letters, but always addresses them to Yan Chen, leaving out the middle character.

He always thinks it's a careless mistake, until a car accident injures his face. His friend, the doctor, jokingly tells Qin Yiren that Yan Yuchen has been disfigured.

Yan Yuchen is confident Qin Yiren will still love him even if he really is disfigured. But that very night, she packs her things and leaves him.

Ignoring the bandages on his face, he rushes to confront her. For the first time in her life, she frowns at him. “Your face is already gone. When you talk, you sound even less like him.”

Only later does Yan Yuchen learn that he has a younger half-brother, five years his junior, who died in an accident a year ago. Qin Yiren came to his side a month later.

His younger brother looked almost exactly like him. His name was Yan Chen.

Theme: Keep an open mind