[New Novel: Breaking Off the Engagement] is now open for reading. Please add it to your collection! *bows*
Jiang Shengsheng landed a role in a major production, one that was highly anticipated. Even her scenes had been tailor-made for her.
The good news: The female lead is her high school best friend, so she has connections in high places.
The bad news: She and her friend have fallen out, and the tailor-made role is based on the story of her failed first love.
Jiang Shengsheng reassured herself: Stay calm. Everything is under control.
But just as she was throwing herself into her performance, her former best friend arranged a major scene of her own. Her first love, Shao Xun, the other lead in the story of her failed romance, would be there in person to watch this love story unfold.
Jiang Shengsheng couldn't sit still. Under the shadow of her first love's impending arrival, she kept flubbing her lines...
Just when she thought he was about to tell her to pack up and leave, Shao Xun, the film's investor, suddenly began showering her with attention. He came to her rescue at a banquet, gave her a necklace in person, and made his feelings for her clear at every turn.
So... should she take the hand her ex-boyfriend was offering, or not?
As the one who had been at fault in their relationship, Jiang Shengsheng couldn't accept his unrelenting kindness. Just as she was about to ask him outright if he liked her, he magnanimously told her:
"Don't get the wrong idea. I only think of you as a little sister."
"..."
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One day, Jiang Shengsheng realized just how many perks she had gotten from being his "little sister": a script personally polished by a major industry talent, and a supporting role in a film by a famous director that would boost her career. She slapped her thigh and had a revelation.
"Being your little sister sure paid off."
Leaning back in his chair, Shao Xun furrowed his brow slightly and gave her a cool glance.
A month later, Jiang Shengsheng was feeling more and more unsettled as she filmed. Every carefully revised scene made her heart ache and brought back memories of the past.
Then her "big brother" pulled her into his lap. Shao Xun asked, "Do you still want to be my little sister?"
#You said you thought of me as your little sister, but you actually wanted to seduce me!#
#Hey, hey, hey! You went to all that trouble revising the script just to make me see the light?#
Reading guide: One-on-one romance, both leads are inexperienced, sweet romance, no logic.
Jiang Cheng had an inescapable engagement and had already had two fiances.
One was Chong Ji, whose engagement to her had been arranged to honor an old bond between their families. He was poised and distinguished, and they had corresponded as pen pals, but he gave her up just as she was about to set off to join him.
The other was Chong Li, who used her name and their engagement as a stepping stone into high society. Gentle and affectionate, he always stood up for her, but he cheated on her before their wedding.
On Jingzhe, the day before the wedding banquet, Chong Li vanished without a trace.
The Chong family pressured her on the grounds of both reason and sentiment, demanding that she take the initiative to seduce Chong Ji and rekindle their engagement.
Jiang Cheng stormed off, but a torrential downpour blocked her way. Forced to stand beneath the portico outside a villa, she was drenched and miserable as icy rain slanted down around her.
In the distance, a Maybach drove toward her, its headlights falling on her and revealing her wretched state.
Inside the car, her cousin teased, "Now that Chong Li has disappeared, won't the bride Grandpa Chong picked out for you end up being yours again?"
Chong Ji lazily lifted his eyes at the remark.
He saw her in her thin clothes, soaked through and clinging to her body. The cuffs of her sleeves were bunched up, revealing delicate, pale wrists. In the headlights, they looked like white jade glistening with raindrops.
A moment later, the man's cool voice sounded inside the car. "Impossible."
Later, Jiang Cheng was sent on a business trip through a carefully laid plan.
In the elevator, Chong Ji held Jiang Cheng, who was pretending to sleep while drunk, and gave a cold smirk. "Are you happy now?"
Jiang Cheng kept her eyes shut and held her breath, giving no answer.
Later still, the engagement was broken, and Jiang Cheng finally escaped. On a bright afternoon, he found her.
Inside the car, the sunlight was blinding. Chong Ji narrowed his eyes as he looked at Jiang Cheng, who had broken off the engagement and run away. His apology was heavy with regret. "I was wrong. This time, let me be the one to take the initiative, okay?"
[Groveling arc | Substitute | Coercive pursuit | Deliberate pretense]
Theme: If you love someone, put on an act for them.
