Meeting You Again After Many Years

The contemporary romance I'm working on next, My Unrequited Love Heard an Echo, is now underway. Please add it to your reading list!

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[The female lead is not a virgin; the male lead is]

Zuo Xichi has secretly loved a brilliant young man since childhood: Li Ziyao, grandson of the Grand Secretary and the fiance her family arranged for her before she was born.

The thing she does most often is gaze at his back as he stands silhouetted by the light.

The gap between them keeps growing.

She knows that this unspoken betrothal will eventually fade away.

But instead of him breaking off the engagement, an accident befalls her.

She is forced to marry into the Lu family.

She is unhappy after marriage. Her mother-in-law is harsh, and her husband is cold.

She grits her teeth and endures it, not wanting to bring shame on her family. She's also glad that he can't see how battered her life has become.

Then disaster strikes the Zuo family. After she miscarries, she begs for help, only to be coldly refused by Lu Yixing.

Suddenly, she is exhausted.

“Lord Lu, let's get a divorce.”

Lu Yixing sneers. “Who would want you once you've left the Lu family?”

So what?

She should have ended this wretched life long ago.

But on the day she leaves, in the pouring rain, she sees him again.

“Zuo Xichi, you certainly have good taste in men.”

She is in a pitiful state, with nowhere to hide.

Compared with the bold, flamboyant boy he was years ago, he is now more like a king without a crown, looking down at her as he judges her for breaking their betrothal.

Later, with nowhere else to turn, she swallows her humiliation and kneels before him, begging him to save her family from ruin.

“Save your father,” the man seated above her says, his thin lips curling as he lifts her chin and looks her over while tears glimmer in her eyes. “What are you willing to trade for it?”

P.S.:

A bittersweet romance.

When they meet again, the heroine is 22 and the hero is 24.

Theme: Know when to cut your losses