This Time, I'm the One Who Doesn't Want You

Chen Yunong loved Ke Yiheng for eight years. In the final year of her life, she decided to live for herself for once.

She went to Ke Yiheng. "Didn't you want the rights to my work? Then break up with her and be with me. A year from now, it'll all be yours."

Throughout that year, Chen Yunong did her best to ignore Ke Yiheng's coldness and contempt, and tried to play the part of a happy wife. A year later, she left as promised. "Let's say we got married in this life. In the next, let's never meet again."

Only after Chen Yunong was gone did Ke Yiheng realize that he had fallen in love with her without even noticing. He chased after her like a madman. "Chen Yunong, who do you think you are, coming and going as you please? Do you think I'm dead?"

Later, Ke Yiheng left Beicheng for Chen Yunong, going to the place where she had lived for nearly twenty years.

Once again, he abandoned the company to fend for itself. His assistant was at a loss, and even the board members had no idea what to do...

With no other choice, his assistant went to Chen Yunong, explained the situation, and begged her to save him and persuade their boss to come home...

Chen Yunong told Ke Yiheng to get back to Beicheng immediately. But Ke Yiheng said pitifully, with a hint of threat, "If you won't come back, neither will I. Let it go bankrupt, let it shut down. My wife ran off, so what do I need all that money for?"

Chen Yunong: "..."

Currently serializing: Red Dust in Tumult, Pei Lin x Zhao Jintang

[Heiress vs. man of the streets] [The male lead fights to win her over / the second male lead chases his wife after the breakup]

(1)

When Zhao Jintang was ten, her mother abandoned her and remarried. The following year, her father died in an accident. The Lu family, longtime friends of her family, became the only place where she could find warmth.

From that day on, Lu Zhoujie cared for her in every way. He was there for countless firsts in her life.

Zhao Jintang had always believed their feelings were mutual. Then one day, she happened to overhear Lu Zhoujie and realized that, to him, she was nothing but a burden he wanted to get rid of.

Watching women come and go at his side, while there was never a place for her, Zhao Jintang lost all hope and fled to Penang.

(2)

The next news she heard from home was that Lu Zhoujie had an officially acknowledged girlfriend.

The car was cramped, and there was no need to eavesdrop. Every word of the call had already reached Pei Lin's ears.

The man suppressed his anticipation and asked in a low voice, "What are you planning to do?"

Zhao Jintang suddenly looked up, her gaze landing on his thin lips.

For a moment, her jumbled thoughts went blank. She heard herself say, "If I slept with you, would Lu Zhoujie be furious?"

(3)

Their stolen days soon came to an end. Zhao Jintang returned home to fulfill her engagement to Lu Zhoujie, which had long since turned into something else.

She thought that if she were ruthless enough, she could cut off everything in Penang. But when she learned that the Lu family planned to punish Pei Lin, she panicked.

Zhao Jintang stopped him outside the office building. "Is Uncle Lu sending you to Country L? Don't go! Trust me."

Seeing the worry in her eyes, Pei Lin realized she had misunderstood, but he did not correct her.

He glanced at Lu Zhoujie, who had been standing outside the car window all along, and pinned Zhao Jintang against the passenger-side door.

The pose was far too intimate. Zhao Jintang didn't dare look outside.

Noticing her nerves, the man moved even closer. "What are you afraid of? It's no secret what we are to each other anymore."

A completed novel of the same type, Love Out of Time. Blurb: Mu Xichuan x Jiang Linxia

Jiang Linxia asked Mu Xichuan, "If I wanted to get married someday, would you marry me?"

"No." He had never intended to take responsibility for a woman in his life.

Four years of youth went down the drain just like that.

--

When Mu Xichuan found out Jiang Linxia had a new boyfriend, he flew into a rage. "Jiang Linxia, are you really in such a hurry to cheat on me?"

"Mu Xichuan, I don't want to play with you anymore."

"But I'm not done playing. You don't get to decide!"

"Jiang Linxia, you're my woman. If anyone dares lay a finger on you, I'll kill him!"

--

The day Jiang Linxia left, Mu Xichuan chased her to the airport like a madman. The once untouchable beauty had tears in his eyes.

"Jiang Linxia, you dare leave? I'll make you regret it!"

"You said you loved me. You can only love me for the rest of your life!"

"Jiang Linxia, you can't make me fall in love with you and then leave me!"

Jiang Linxia looked at him, her eyes empty. "Mu Xichuan, you taught me that devotion is meant to be betrayed."

Theme: Love means helping each other become whole.