Name: Butterfly Crossing
Author: Creamy Little Goose

Synopsis

[My next book, How Are You Not Bankrupt Yet? Please add it to your favorites, lovelies!]

"Cold winds sweep through, butterflies lie dormant. She is the only blessing."

Pampered little princess x long-suffering young gentleman

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Before the wedding.

Meng Zhipu bragged to her friends:

"Tai Mingdong and I have an agreement. After we get married, we'll each do our own thing and stay out of each other's way. He doesn't even dare breathe too loudly around me."

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After the wedding, they woke up in the same bed.

Meng Zhipu said, "It wasn't great. I almost fell asleep."

Tai Mingdong said, "I didn't feel much either. I just remember someone clinging to me for dear life and refusing to let go."

They stared at each other. Meng Zhipu pulled out a bank card. "I wasn't satisfied, but you did put in the effort. Take this and treat yourself."

Tai Mingdong simply tossed her a pair of shorts. "Yours. Don't forget to take them."

Meng Zhipu fled his room in disgrace, grinding her teeth as she thought, Even if I have to become a widow, I'll deal with him sooner or later.

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Meng Zhipu checked the security footage and discovered that she'd been the one clinging to Tai Mingdong and refusing to let go after getting drunk.

Second Young Master Tai magnanimously declared that he was willing to put the past behind them and become her long-term partner.

A long-term partner, exclusively paired with her, with no third party allowed.

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Meng Zhipu asked, "Didn't we agree we'd each do our own thing after we got married?"

Tai Mingdong loosened his tie and said unhurriedly, "We are doing our own thing. You play with me, I play with you. We stay out of each other's way."

After Tai Mingdong kissed Meng Zhipu until she was dizzy, she suddenly remembered she hadn't looked for her pack of pretty young boys in ages.

Meng Zhipu thought, Could this be Second Young Master Tai's beauty trap?!

△ Marriage first, love later; players face off

△ Both leads are each other's first and only; happy ending

△ Updates every night at nine

[Pre-release: How Are You Not Bankrupt Yet? Please add it to your favorites, lovelies!]

"I've looked up to you for so many years. At last, I can hold you when you fall."

1

As the daughter of a nouveau riche tycoon, Xie Yanli had the nouveau riche lifestyle down pat: the most expensive car, the flashiest clothes.

Most importantly, she went after the most aloof man.

The most aloof, richest, most handsome, and most cold-hearted flower on the mountain, Jiang Zhao.

Xie Yanli made a bet with someone in the garden. "I'll win him over in three days, guaranteed."

Behind her, Jiang Zhao was lounging beneath a wisteria trellis. He opened his eyes lazily and sneered.

And yet he tucked the first love letter Xie Yanli had sent him into a book.

After that, he received a love letter from her every month.

One letter after another, piling up like sand into a sea.

Then one day, they stopped without warning.

2

Everyone at school knew that Miss Xie had a three-minute attention span. Even when pursuing her dream guy, she never went too far.

On the last day of senior year, rain poured down, and damp air filled the classroom.

After turning down someone's confession, Xie Yanli glanced back and saw Jiang Zhao dropping a stack of love letters into the trash.

Their eyes met. He asked, seemingly without a care, "Have you had enough fun?"

The sincerity in her heart froze over. She crumpled the last love letter she'd written to him and tossed it into the trash, too.

"Chasing someone is too exhausting, Jiang Zhao. I'll come take care of you when you go bankrupt."

3

Later, Xie Yanli finally got her wish: Jiang Zhao went bankrupt.

The rain was still pouring. She found him outside her home.

His features were sharp as a blade, his bearing elegant and imposing, yet the moment he saw her, his eyes turned red.

"Xie Yanli," he said. "Didn't you say you'd take care of me?"

Even though she'd just fallen out with her father, had all her assets frozen, and been betrayed by both her boyfriend and her best friend, the moment she saw his eyes, she said as if bewitched, "All right."

4

Much later, Xie Yanli found a stack of carefully preserved, yellowed love letters in a drawer.

The creases in the topmost letter had been carefully smoothed out.

On the last day of senior year, she had left her love letters behind and walked away. But someone had quietly retrieved every memory they shared from the trash.

[Bonus scene]

To support her man, Xie Yanli started working hard to build a business.

The spoiled young lady finally took something seriously for the first time, and to her surprise, she soared to success.

Xie Yanli: Huh? Could I be one of those legendary business geniuses?

As her business grew bigger and bigger, a friend asked, "You're so rich. Why are you only supporting one man?"

Xie Yanli: Hmm, you've got a point.

But then the man pinned her against the mirror with one hand, forcing her to look at herself.

In the mirror, her face was flushed, her beauty ravishing. He gazed at her, utterly entranced.

"Xie Yanli," he said through gritted teeth. "Guess who your biggest angel investor is?"

#What's it like to go bankrupt yourself and then support your bankrupt husband?#

#Putting on a brave face for love, even if it means biting off more than you can chew#

#Wait, you weren't bankrupt after all?!#