[He Thought I Was Dead]:
After an argument with Lu Zhihan, she decided to do what he said.
Pack her things and leave for a while, to give them both time to cool off.
When she had thought it all through and returned, ready to have Lu Zhihan sign the divorce papers, she realized she might have made things too simple:
Lu Zhihan didn't believe that the woman who had come back was real, and he had no intention of letting her leave.
The curtains he never opened while she was there, the red thread around her wrist, and the bloody fingertips clasping her wrist as he kissed her softly were all ways of keeping her with him.
Keeping a departed soul from leaving.
He was going mad.
**
Someone told Lu Zhihan that Sheng Ning was dead.
Lu Zhihan believed them.
From then on, every day brought him closer to hell than the day before.
[One-line Summary]:
He thought I was dead.
Those who find love may hold it for a time; those who lose me will lose me forever.
Faking her death / aloof beauty / the groveling chase / happy ending
Original title: The First Summer's End
(March 13)
Coming Soon: The Antidote
There is an unwritten rule in the counseling profession:
If a counselor and their client develop romantic feelings, they must end the counseling relationship immediately.
If they want to be together, they must spend at least three years apart, with no contact whatsoever.
Coming Soon: Mooncrusher
A friend said the new CEO looked like exactly Sheng Lai's type.
Sheng Lai glanced over. The man wore a simple, understated white shirt and black trousers, as bright and pure as the moon.
His fingers were still long and warm, just as they had been in their student days. His memory, however, wasn't what it used to be.
They met at a class reunion, and Sheng Lai thought surely he would remember who she was.
Instead, he only asked where she was going, then drove her home in silence.
As she got out, her friend whispered, "Do you think he likes you?"
Sheng Lai scoffed. "Just because he treated me like a stranger and handed me his business card?"
Her friend glanced at Lu Yunhe behind her, looking like she wanted to say something but held back.
It wasn't until he drove her back from a business trip that Lu Yunhe kissed her all the way from the elevator to her room.
Sheng Lai wondered if he was drunk.
The man, his eyes rimmed red, stared at her for a while, then took her hand and pressed it to his eyes.
The usually cool and reserved man spoke with a slight tremor: "I... want you."
Two words, held back with all his might, yet their meaning was unmistakable.
With alcohol clouding her mind, Sheng Lai spent a wild night with him.
Afterward, she found two business cards.
One was a flashy, brazen self-promotion.
The other was plain and restrained from front to back.
It belonged to Lu Yunhe.
She was about to throw it away when she paused, suddenly remembering a rumor in the industry.
A top agent was known for changing male companions often, especially liking men who made the first move.
Getting special treatment was simple: all it took was a business card.
If she accepted it, it meant she was interested.
If she tossed it, it meant she'd lost interest.
At the class reunion,
she collected more than ten business cards from men and women alike.
As she left, she smiled and said she'd be sure to get in touch sometime.
After opening the car door, the man stood there for a long moment, then lowered his eyes and asked, "To your place?"
She hummed in reply, but at the last minute called a friend to pick her up, casually thanking him.
Through the shifting light and shadow of the car window, he watched her get out, his thin lips tightly pressed together.
The man squeezed his eyes shut. His voice was swallowed by the traffic: "...Next time, I will."
Holding the business card, Sheng Lai remembered the look that had misled her friend.
So that was what he had meant back then.
Be a little more proactive.
She squeezed her fingers tight and closed her eyes again.
...No. Find someone else.
Theme: Cherish the happiness you have
A Wonderful Adventure with the Moon
I’m the Overbearing CEO’s Goofy Sword Spirit
Building a Sect for a New Era
May the Grand Princess Live for Ten Thousand Years (Secret Identity)
Rusting [Unrequited Love from a Man]
Me, a Mecha Prodigy
Shattering the Moon
Playing a Secret Identity, but the Real Me Is Everyone's Favorite
A Cannon Fodder, but with a Genius Simulator
Frail and Sickly, Yet the Mecha World's Great Demon King
I Swapped Bodies with the Hero of a Wife-Chasing Story
After Retirement, I Became a National Treasure Mecha Instructor
Madam's writing style is very delicate, and the description of the characters' psychological activities is concrete and real. It can accurately express the psychological and character contradictions of the characters and at the same time arouse the resonance of the readers. However, there was not enough preparation before the male protagonist's psychological transformation, which made the part where the male protagonist went crazy and regretted later seemed a bit abrupt, which made me feel that it was not an action based on the character characteristics of the male protagonist that was created in the early stages. He should always be calm and self-restrained, and act strictly according to his original plan even when there are uncertainties. At least I couldn't feel his love for the heroine at all from the way he treated her in the first 15 chapters. Since he was so sad after learning about the death of the heroine that he would rather take medicine and see the heroine again in his hallucination, then why did he deliberately not answer the heroine's phone calls every time before she gave up completely? Why are there only a handful of visits home in three years? Why does the heroine show impatience and trouble when she expresses her desire to talk? And why was he so indifferent to the heroine's life? He was injured several times but he didn't notice at all? I don't think any of this can be explained by "protecting the heroine's safety." How can I believe that he will completely collapse after the heroine's death when he has not felt the love for the heroine for three years. Love can be an afterthought, or it can become a ball of dead ashes and return to peace after burning. But his love seemed like a thin piece of ice melting into water, leaving no trace. Except for the description of the male protagonist in the first 15 chapters, I wouldn't say that the part about the wife's abuse of the male protagonist is in place. After all, he coldly and violently abused the female protagonist for three years during the marriage, which is not just talk. But I think the writing is very touching, and it successfully made me cry until my eyes were swollen in the middle of the night. Great! But I don't think this is a closed-loop crematorium for chasing a wife. If you read it directly from Chapter V, you will feel that this abuse of men is really good. However, after reading the depression and despair revealed between the lines of the heroine, as well as the attitude of the male protagonist towards her, it will make people feel that the male protagonist is really a bit split in the middle and late stages and the early stage. It feels like a new personality derived from the purpose of abusing men. I still like this book very much, but my wife still needs to practice more on figuring out the logic of character behavior and transitions. Come on!
I felt so distressed after reading it that I skipped directly to the last chapter, but I still bought all the skipped chapters. In the end, it's better to take back what you said before. He deserves it. Although he is not considerate enough and is cold and violent, he just doesn't open his mouth. Why bother with a male protagonist who doesn't open his mouth? Let's live happily with Sheng Ning.
For example, if I were Sheng Ning, I would probably cut my //////// wrists directly in front of Lu Hanshi, grab his collar the moment the blood gushes out, let the blood dye his neck red, and say to him through gritted teeth: "I don't care if I trade your life for my life. If you dare to use a puppet show to trade me back, I will dare to use the same method to trade you back after your death! At worst, we will die together." To deal with a madman, you can only fight fire with fire, and be even crazier than him. Alas, it's a pity that Sheng Ning is not a person of this temperament. If he were, he wouldn't have been wasted by this cold violence + widowhood marriage for three years, and now he is being held up by this man (light up a cigarette)
Even though it's a setting, I still can't understand the logic that to protect you means to ignore you.
I'm wondering if it would make the male protagonist feel more real if they do it together.
It's been a long time since I've been tortured so much. I just finished crying and I had a whole pack of tissues.
Love this book! But my wife likes to use the sentence pattern of "person of..." In her articles. It's fine if it doesn't appear many times, but if it appears two or three times in a paragraph, it will be a bit monotonous, and the structure of only attributive + person will be a bit confusing TVT
All I can say is that it's amazing. I've been crying since the so-called crematorium. In the end, my eyelids were swollen. The writing is very delicate. The only thing is that I can't see their sweet love story. They will be happy in the world of novels.
Although I knew it would be he, it was hard to accept it in my heart. The abuse of the female protagonist in the first part was really cruel, and I was so distressed. The part where the male protagonist was abused later, every time a friend of the male protagonist explained that it was not his fault, made me subconsciously uncomfortable. It seems that everyone stands with the male protagonist and empathizes with her, but who can really understand the female protagonist's previous pain? The heroine should be more ruthless. The belated and affectionate regret and opening of an explanation cannot provide a strong defense for the past. Even if the male protagonist has all kinds of good strategies and a miserable life experience that he cannot choose, it is not the reason why he cannot give his partner a sense of security in a timely manner. Since marriage is involved, it should not only be love, but also responsibility and trust to have the courage to go on firmly. Of course, this is just my feeling and understanding, and there are many subjective colors and my expectations for love. Maybe love has changed when we care about right and wrong.
How should I put it, I feel a bit down and can't stand it anymore. Maybe it's me