Rose Withdrawal

Latin dancer Su Qin whirls her skirt across the stage with abandon, like a rose in full bloom.

Yan Cheng, the handsome and wealthy only heir to Fuya Group, a corporate giant with a monopoly in multiple fields.

Everyone envies Su Qin for marrying into wealth and receiving Yan Cheng's openly displayed affection.

Only when her mother dies does Su Qin finally realize...

She was nothing but a pawn he used to claim the family fortune.

And in his heart, there was a "white moonlight" he truly cared for.

Su Qin leaves behind divorce papers, disappears into a small county town, and changes her name to Qiao Mansa.

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Qiao Mansa, the bar's proprietress, loves wearing red dresses and heavy makeup.

But she has a strange illness: if an adult man touches her, she feels like throwing up.

Her ex-husband Yan Cheng spends three years searching for her, hoping to cure her "fear of men," but all she wants is to get away from him.

"Su Qin, I know you hate me, but you shouldn't punish yourself." Yan Cheng gazes at the woman he loves, heartbroken.

"My name isn't Su Qin. The Su Qin who could dance Latin was killed by your own hand." She speaks to him in the sharpest, most cutting tone imaginable.

In despair, Yan Cheng asks Su Qin, "How do you want me to die so you'll be happy?"

Su Qin grits her teeth. "Preferably with a white blade going in and a red blade coming out."

"All right. I'll wait for you." Without a moment's hesitation, Yan Cheng picks up the end of Su Qin's sentence. "I'll personally put the knife in your hand."

Later, he really does just that, but she loses her resolve.

Withdrawal symptoms are unpleasant reactions caused by stopping a medication or reducing its dose.

Su Qin always thought Yan Cheng's love for her was just withdrawal symptoms.

But in the end, she discovers that she is the one suffering from withdrawal.

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Pretend playboy / rekindled love / university campus + city life

(I)

In her junior year, An Yushan accompanied her parents to a wedding.

The groom happened to be Ji Shicha's father.

She knew Ji Shicha was the keyboardist for the band Miracle. She had seen him smile as he listened to a girl confess her love, then calmly dodge her kiss.

He was a proud, untamable child of heaven, languid and noble; she had always been a well-behaved girl who followed the rules, quiet and sweet.

They should have belonged to different worlds, yet she longed to enter his.

After polishing her confession in her mind countless times, she finally worked up the courage.

But at the corner of the hallway in a quiet bar, she overheard him joking with his friend...

Xiang Zihang laughed and said, "That girl you brought today doesn't look like she's from our circle at all."

Ji Shicha's voice drifted over, casual and unconcerned. "My dad set me up with her."

Xiang Zihang laughed. "If you really marry her, the family fortune is yours for sure. She won't be able to keep you in line, so you can do whatever you want afterward."

(II)

Ji Shicha had calculated everything, but never expected that his repeated attempts to get closer would be met with An Yushan's cold insistence on keeping her distance.

In a deafening bar, Ji Shicha, half-drunk, stopped An Yushan in the hallway as she was leaving.

He gripped her chin tightly. His eyes were hazy with drink as he asked hoarsely, "Why are you avoiding me? You used to call me 'brother' every other sentence."

"I don't have a brother like you." An Yushan wrenched his hand away and stepped back, her face cold.

Ji Shicha chuckled softly, leaned down, and clasped the back of her head. His warm breath brushed across her lips. "Oh, right. If I really were your brother, I wouldn't do what I'm about to do."

As the words fell, he lowered his head and kissed her.

An Yushan struggled desperately, then bit his lip hard. The taste of blood instantly spread between their lips.

Ji Shicha wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his fingertip, his eyes filled with wildly growing obsession. "I'd forgotten. Even a rabbit will bite when it's cornered."

Theme: If you like someone, keep trying; if you love someone, don't give up