[The main story and all extras are complete]
Lu Yaojia was born into a distinguished family. Beautiful and blessed with every advantage, she seemed destined to be admired and adored.
But her life had four imperfections.
First, her parents died violently, and the cause remained a mystery.
Second, her first love abandoned her to curry favor with the powerful, eagerly becoming her grandfather's adopted son and her uncle in name.
Third, the family tutor she had always admired had an improper relationship with her mother.
Fourth, she was betrothed to Zhou Yuexun, heir to the Zhou family of Nancheng.
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On the day she agreed to marry Zhou Yuexun, Lu Yaojia went to find him in the flower hall.
Zhou Yuexun sat alone on a chaise longue, holding a teacup between his fingers. He raised his eyes slightly. "Why have you suddenly changed your mind?"
Lu Yaojia crouched on the ornate Persian rug and looked up at him with a radiant smile. "I have feelings for you too, and I am willing to spend the rest of my life with you."
In truth, on the day she learned about the engagement, Lu Yaojia had gone to her biological father to ask him to call it off.
He told her that if she wanted to inherit the Wen Group, she had to marry Zhou Yuexun.
When it came to love or wealth, Lu Yaojia chose wealth without hesitation.
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Lu Yaojia's mother, Wen Zhiqing, had been spoiled and headstrong since childhood. She ran away from her wedding for the sake of true love, leading her family to sever ties with her. In the end, she died on a rainy night.
Lu Yaojia would not follow in her mother's footsteps.
Marriage and love were merely bargaining chips. She had never taken them to heart.
On their wedding day, Zhou Yuexun asked her, "Have you ever loved me?"
Lu Yaojia smiled softly. "You will be the only one by my side for the rest of my life."
Sweet on the outside, dark on the inside vs. master schemer
[*] The male lead's every first belongs to the female lead
Now serializing: False Devotion
The first time Jiang Jin saw Xie Rongyu was at a dimly lit club. Amid the noisy crowd, he sat quietly with his eyes lowered, savoring his tea, utterly out of place and radiating a lonely chill.
She knew his family was on the verge of bankruptcy, and his mother was gravely ill with little hope of recovery.
She walked over and sat beside him. "Is there anything I can do to help you?"
Jiang Jin's way of helping him was to offer him a marriage contract.
"I'll help you rebuild your life, and when the time is right, I'll divorce you. Sign this, and a brilliant future will be yours for the taking."
Golden light caught in Xie Rongyu's eyelashes, giving him an almost saintly air. "Why are you helping me?"
Jiang Jin gazed steadily into his eyes but did not answer.
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The high-society circles of Licheng all said that the Jiang family's young lady must have gone mad. She had spent a fortune buying herself a wolf in gentleman'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 how he dressed in white shirts and black pants, and loved the woody fragrance he wore.
On the day of their divorce, Xie Rongyu had already rebuilt his life. He wore a black shirt, and the scent around him was no longer the gentle, woody fragrance she loved.
Seeing how he was dressed, Jiang Jin furrowed her brows slightly and said gently, "That doesn't look good on you."
Xie Rongyu gripped her wrist and asked coldly, "Because it doesn't make me look like him, is that it?"
Theme: Love takes skill
The male protagonist is clean physically and mentally, and has no other love history or romantic partners. There is only one female protagonist from the beginning to the end, right?
You are so diligent. It didn't take long for you to start the next one after finishing one. You are as diligent as a big scalper in the production team. I am a big fan of this author!
Does the male protagonist have a first love?!
I really don't understand Wen Zhiqing, and suddenly I feel that she deserved it in her last life
I've been watching it for a day, and I really like the heroine's calm, smart and scheming character. It's just that she's not as good as the male protagonist. It's better to torture the male protagonist. I feel that the male protagonist is in control of the overall situation and has no disadvantages. The female protagonist's various ways to please are also quite depressing.
Isn't it said that the male protagonist always belongs to the female protagonist for the first time? Is first love real? Heartache
Dear author, can you please update more? It's so beautiful!!!
Looking at Uncle Qin next door to Uncle Zhou here, does the author have any obsession with Third Uncle, haha
I "want" to catch a big bug out of the author~
The adoptive father's transformation is very strange. He has someone he likes, but he has been in love with the heroine's mother for more than ten years. He was misunderstood that he was in love with her when he was young. He didn't explain that he could have died to stop her from leaving in the last life, but then he cheated on her after living a happy life? Cheating also raises a substitute. Could it be that the relationship will break down because there is no external resistance? This is ooc for the twists and turns. It is understandable about the hero's father. He loves the person in his imagination and has been beautifying it in his memory. However, he will be disappointed when he actually sees it.