A Love That Gets Under Your Skin

[Sly, aloof designer x bold, unrestrained architect]

Jiang Gu had recently taken an interest in a man. He had elegant features and perfect bone structure, with an air of otherworldly grace. Every detail was exactly to her taste.

She observed him for several days, then finally worked up the courage to ask for his WeChat.

The man glanced at her sideways. His long, pale fingers slowly pulled down his mask, revealing a face Jiang Gu knew all too well.

"Miss Jiang, your taste really hasn't changed at all."

In high school, Zhu Tingwan was a bold and carefree artistic prodigy, while Jiang Gu was an unnoticed nobody.

She had secretly loved him for three years. After graduation, she seized on a dare and worked up the courage to confess.

They dated for less than three days before she dumped him in record time.

She thought they'd never cross paths again, but they kept running into each other.

Even more mortifying, he turned out to be the chief architect for the Twilight Hotel project, her client.

They tested each other cautiously. Jiang Gu tried to draw him in by backing away, but he pressed closer at every turn, until, drunk and flushed with desire, he pinned her against his chest. His eyes were bloodshot, his voice hoarse. "You were the one who said you loved me first. What gives you the right to run away first?"

Rising architecture star Zhu Tingwan won several international architectural design awards in his early twenties.

Unfortunately, though he was a prodigy, he was cold and unfeeling.

Only a few close friends knew that his heart had been broken by his first love, and he had cut himself off from all worldly desires.

After the project was completed, everyone watched him put an arm around the petite designer's waist and say, "Call her sister-in-law."

The girl looked cool and composed, with a graceful figure. She didn't seem the least bit timid or insecure.

His friends all teased him behind his back: He found himself the exact opposite of a replacement.

Until one day, Zhu Tingwan lost control and kissed her, murmuring as if coaxing her, "Little Jiangsi, promise you won't ever leave me again, okay?"

Later, they came across a photo of the two of them in their high school art studio.

Jiang Gu was tucked into a corner, wearing a shy smile that seemed out of place.

Zhu Tingwan looked carefree, but his sidelong glance was fixed on one person.

Her.

"The secret I couldn't say aloud was that I loved you to the depths of my soul. Later, it was no longer a secret."

Content warnings:

1. Both leads are each other's first and only.

2. Reunited after a breakup. No evil female rival. The heroine is adored by everyone except her family. She escapes her parents and never looks back.

3. Mutual unrequited love. The male lead is a model of virtue and cuts off his admirers without hesitation.

4. Updated daily, with occasional revisions.

Please follow my next novel, Love Off Course. Blurb below

Ming Shiyue, the adopted daughter of Mingcheng Real Estate, was beautiful, but also spoiled and willful. In all of Jing City, only the young heir of the Min Group could put up with her.

With their arranged marriage just around the corner, she took an unexpected turn, linking arms with his older brother, Min Nanxing, and smiling sweetly. "Aren't you going to wish us a happy wedding?"

As the eldest son of the Min family, Min Nanxing had been sent away to Yuejiang to prove himself when he was only a teenager. Ruthless and cold-hearted, he became a rising star in the business world, then cruelly drove his own uncle into a corner. He was not someone to mess with.

Everyone knew Min Nanxing treated Ming Shiyue like a plaything.

One glimpse of her when they were young had sparked in him an obsession with crushing her wings with his own hands. In the end, he failed to break her pride and instead fell at the feet of his canary.

He had her name tattooed on his chest, as close to his heart as possible.

He planted a mountainside full of flowers for her in the middle of the desert.

He used the warmth of the sun to build her an entire world of ice and snow.

He nearly died several times just to make her absurd dreams come true, all so his moon would remain high in the sky.

But his moon proposed a divorce by mutual agreement and said coldly, "I thought we were using each other. You knew that perfectly well."

It turned out she had never loved him.

When news of their marital troubles came out, everyone said Ming Shiyue had wasted a winning hand.

Gossip accounts reported that Min Nanxing had spent a fortune at auction on a phoenix crown made by Gu Yue, the rising star in kingfisher-feather craftsmanship.

The usually dignified, aloof Min Nanxing lowered his noble head and gently coaxed the person in his arms. "Come on, one more bite."

The blurry video showed only a corner of a plain-colored qipao, apparently the same style worn by Gu Yue.

Not long after, someone spotted Ming Shiyue running out of a villa with red eyes.

But Min Nanxing chased after her, and the two of them kissed passionately in an alley.

When asked about their tangled relationship, Min Nanxing's eyes softened. "My wife really is delicate."

"It took so much effort to get her to marry me again. Don't scare her off."

A friend who knew them both saw that the most important transparent safe in Min Nanxing's home held only two things:

A blue-green phoenix crown and a bright red marriage certificate.

Oh, so that was how he won his wife back.

"He was the one she chose with her own hands, and her love went off course."

Content warnings:

1. Marriage first, love later. They save each other. The husband must win his wife back. Happy ending.

2. Both leads are each other's first and only. The male lead only seems like a playboy. In truth, he's a model of virtue, and he only goes mad for the heroine.

Theme: Growing together.