I'm Here to Hold You

1.

Following her grandmother's dying wish, Yun Zhi sets out to repay the great benefactor who once saved her life.

She never expected that her benefactor would be Qin Yanbei, the notorious heir to the Qin family.

Word around town is that the heir is dark-tempered and unpredictable. After suffering a serious injury in an accident, he's become even more twisted, and no one dares go near him.

To repay him, Yun Zhi can only work up the courage to appear before him.

At their first meeting, Qin Yanbei sits in the shadows, tall and slender, his skin pale, his profile as graceful as a painting, and his deep black eyes cold and dangerous.

A classic darkened villain with a beautiful face.

Yun Zhi faces her doom with a sweet smile and softly explains, "Mr. Qin, I... I'm here to repay you."

She speaks so quietly that, by a stroke of bad luck, the villain Qin Yanbei misses one word. And so...

Qin Yanbei's gaze darkens: ...She's here to hug me.

Qin Yanbei's ears turn red: H-how dare you!

2.

Yun Zhi works hard to save and warm the villain, whose body and personality are both on the verge of falling into the abyss. She has no idea that Qin Yanbei is imagining an entirely different story in his head...

Yun Zhi politely helps him up.

Qin Yanbei grits his teeth slightly: She actually dared to touch me.

The surroundings are too noisy, so Yun Zhi leans close to his ear to speak.

Qin Yanbei's fingers curl tightly: She actually wants to kiss me.

Yun Zhi has a nightmare in which Qin Yanbei gets angry and tries to kill her. Terrified, she trembles and murmurs his name in her sleep.

Qin Yanbei, keeping watch beside her bed, feels his palm grow hot: She even calls my name in her dreams. She must like me so much.

3.

On the day Qin Yanbei recovers, Yun Zhi finally completes her mission of repaying him. She brings out the suitcase she packed long ago and says goodbye:

"Mr. Qin, I'm leaving. We won't meet again."

Qin Yanbei, having completely convinced himself that she loves him, feels his world collapse.

Clutching the engagement ring he'd secretly kept for so long, he finally faces the cruelest truth.

Yun Zhi never liked him.

Her ardent suitor is the one who truly saved her life.

To her, he is nothing at all.

That evening, rain pours outside the villa. Yun Zhi pulls along her little suitcase and witnesses the true darkening of the villain Qin Yanbei.

With the storm clouds behind him, a feverish red flickers in his sharp eyes as he pleads hoarsely.

"Zhizhi, hug me. Be good."

Highlights:

1. The male lead is a master of convincing himself she's in love with him, and falls for her through sheer imagination.

2. He is the benefactor, but for special reasons, he doesn't know it. The "truth" he learns later is false.

[An angel with a script based on traditional Chinese virtues X an overthinking king with a sweet-romance-and-redemption script]

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[Marriage first, love later; possessive pursuit]

The wealthy circles of Liangcheng are abuzz with the news that the An family has found their long-lost biological daughter. Overnight, their adopted daughter, An Yuan, has become the most awkward person in the family.

Even her fiance is acting without a care in the world, taking the real heiress out in luxury cars and yachts. He casually bets with a friend, "An Yuan is about to lose everything. She won't dare get mad. She'll come crawling back, begging me not to break up with her."

An Yuan is right there when he says it. She ends things with him in front of everyone, making a spectacular scene, then turns and walks into the swirling snow.

She drags her suitcase along, freezing, and curls up alone on a deserted street. A car cuts through the snow and stops beside her, like a ferocious beast lying in wait for its prey.

The rear window rolls down. A man in a fine suit, with refined, ink-dark eyes, smiles at her with elegant warmth. "Nowhere to go? I happen to urgently need a wife with a clean background. After we marry, we can be courteous to each other and stay out of one another's way. Would you be willing to help me, Miss An?"

With snow falling all around, this gentleman standing at the very top of Liangcheng's social pyramid seems like a god of salvation: gentle and refined, with no hint of danger.

Struck by an offer too good to be true, An Yuan looks at him and stands straight. "When are we getting our marriage license?"

He smiles. "Now."

An Yuan thinks marriage is only a formality, so she takes out her household registration booklet and makes the craziest decision of her life. As if possessed, she gets into his car.

She has no idea how much pent-up desire and possessiveness lies beneath his gentle disguise, repressed for years.

Only later does An Yuan learn just how heartbroken and anguished this hypocrite, who demands so much from her after they marry, was on the night she held her engagement party with someone else.

#Sorry, I really like your fiancee#

#A high-level king pretends to be innocent to win his wife#

Theme: No matter how dark the abyss, light will always find its way in