Taking What Someone Else Loves

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What sort of mutual love is this? It’s simply taking what someone else holds dear.

Gu Heyan comes from a distinguished family in Licheng. Refined and noble, he is powerful and self-possessed.

Women who adore him are as plentiful as fish crossing a river.

Yet he has fallen for his younger brother’s ex-girlfriend.

After he starts dating Jiang Chunxi, Gu Chengze comes to confront him, his eyes red as he protests, “Brother! She’s the woman I love!”

“Is that so?”

Gu Heyan sits elegantly on the sofa, his gaze indifferent as he looks up. He says unhurriedly, “But we’re in love with each other.”

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Gu Heyan first met Jiang Chunxi when he returned to his alma mater as an honored alumnus.

After his speech, someone tugged at his lapel.

The young woman’s hand was slender and fair, her nails translucent. Her eyes were bright and clear as she asked a bold question: “Sir, could I have your WeChat?”

Gu Heyan saw through her nervousness and inexperience, and asked with studied composure, “What do you want my WeChat for?”

“To pursue you!” she declared, though her gaze faltered.

Gu Heyan gave her his WeChat, but didn’t take her words seriously.

She never added him, and he merely smiled faintly, not giving it another thought.

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The next time Gu Heyan saw Jiang Chunxi was at the Gu residence.

Standing behind the wisteria vines, he watched her tug at his younger brother’s sleeve and coquettishly plead with him, just as she had once tugged at Gu Heyan’s clothes.

He had seen plenty of sweet young women like her. Watching her act so adorably, Gu Heyan felt no interest at all.

He decided he wouldn’t mind having a sister-in-law like her.

A little naive, just right for Gu Chengze.

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The last time Gu Heyan saw Jiang Chunxi, he stumbled upon her breaking up with Gu Chengze.

This time, she wasn’t timid. Her gaze was cool, and her pride was that of someone accustomed to being above others.

“We’re breaking up.”

Her natural arrogance stirred in him a wicked desire to break her spirit.

Gu Heyan thought it, and then he did it.

But in the end, the one whose back bent wasn’t Jiang Chunxi. It was the lofty Mr. Gu.

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Currently serializing: False Devotion

The first time Jiang Jin met Xie Rongyu was in a dimly lit club. Amid the clamor of the room, only he sat quietly with his eyes lowered, sipping tea, utterly out of place and wrapped in solitude.

She knew his family was on the verge of bankruptcy and his mother was gravely ill, beyond treatment.

She walked over and sat beside him. “Is there anything I can do to help you?”

Jiang Jin’s solution was to hand him a marriage agreement.

“I’ll help you make a comeback, and I’ll divorce you when the time is right. Sign this, and a brilliant future will be yours for the taking.”

Golden light caught on Xie Rongyu’s eyelashes, lending him a saintly air. “Why are you helping me?”

Jiang Jin gazed steadily at his face but didn’t answer.

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The high society of Licheng all said that Miss Jiang had gone mad. She’d spent a fortune to buy herself a wolf in sheep’s clothing, who would surely repay her kindness by biting her hard one day!

Only Jiang Jin didn’t care.

She loved his features, loved seeing him in white shirts and black trousers, and loved the woody fragrance he wore.

On the day they divorced, Xie Rongyu had already made his comeback. He wore a black shirt, and the scent around him was no longer the gentle, woody fragrance.

Seeing how he was dressed, Jiang Jin frowned slightly and spoke softly. “That doesn’t look good on you.”

Xie Rongyu grabbed her wrist and asked coldly, “Because I don’t look like him this way, is that it?”

Theme: Love is built on mutual trust.