Gentle Therapy

[Devoted and possessive x cool-headed and gentle]

[Male secret crush | Reunited after years apart | Pretend romance turns real]

When Ye Yinzhi had just transferred to Ningjiang, several girls from the school next door cornered her in the restroom to “teach her a lesson.”

Knowing it was due to a personal grudge, she gritted her teeth and endured it.

A basin of cold water was dumped over her head. Insults mingled with rough handling, and they made quite a racket.

Through the wall, a male voice outside spoke with teasing amusement: “You’re having quite a bit of fun.”

Water dripped onto her eyelids, its chill making her shiver. Ye Yinzhi clenched the hem of her clothes.

The voice was indistinct, casual, and distinctive, yet not quite clear.

The next second, without warning, it turned icy: “Get out.”

He was stepping in to help her.

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When they were young, Xu Wenqin relied on his family’s status and never backed down or lowered his head.

Though cold, aloof, and arrogant, he still went to great lengths and made careful plans to get close to Ye Yinzhi, taking one step at a time.

They met again at a friend’s wedding.

He had waited eight years for her, only to see her crouched by the roadside after the wedding, crying her eyes out.

Over another man.

Xu Wenqin’s expression darkened, his gaze turning as indifferent as winter mist.

Yet when he passed by, he couldn’t help lowering the car window and “inviting” her inside, shamelessly demanding an answer that was eight years overdue.

-

Xu Wenqin had always known Ye Yinzhi had feelings for someone else.

What he didn’t know was that, if not for a misunderstanding, he was the one she had kept in her heart all along.

He wasn’t a good person, but for the woman he loved, he was willing to try to become better.

Or, to win Ye Yinzhi over, he wouldn’t mind becoming a little worse.

Coming soon: Kiss of Velvet

[Cold, distinguished capital-city power player x seemingly innocent, well-behaved flirt]

[Fostered in his home | Powerful man gets seduced | Eight-year age gap]

After her father died, the Yun family collapsed overnight, leaving chaos and ruin in its wake.

As she was about to leave for university in Pingjing, Yun Rong was sent to live with Chen Suiyan, whom she hadn’t seen in ten years.

Before she left, a close elder repeatedly urged her, “Be good.”

Chen Suiyan was Yun Rong’s uncle in name only, with no blood relation. Rumor had it he was cold and difficult to approach, with ruthless methods.

A man in such a high position had no obligation to take her in, let alone indulge her.

Yet on Yun Rong’s eighteenth birthday, shortly after she arrived, Chen Suiyan personally held a banquet for her at the old residence, with the entire place filled with society’s elite.

He stayed by her side the whole time, quietly telling everyone: Yun Rong would have him to protect her from now on.

Later, after the banquet ended and the guests had gone, Chen Suiyan went to the back courtyard and lit a cigarette.

He flicked the ash from his fingers. In the white smoke, the quiet was broken by an intruder.

Yun Rong had deliberately sought him out, but put on a flustered, helpless act and lowered her eyes to apologize.

Chen Suiyan looked at her coolly. Her acting was a little lacking, and it wasn’t hard to see through.

Even so, he stubbed out his cigarette and came over to ruffle her hair as he used to when she was little.

He willingly played along. “Don’t be afraid of me, Rongrong.”

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Over four years, Chen Suiyan taught Yun Rong many things. The only thing he refused to teach her was love.

Yet he remained clear-headed and composed, indulging her clumsy attempts to flirt with him again and again. He was maddeningly contradictory.

Until the night Yun Rong returned from a date with the He family’s son, the man she was to marry for the sake of an alliance.

Chen Suiyan stood on the second floor and watched through the floor-to-ceiling window as the man spoke, then lowered his head as if to kiss her.

Yun Rong merely closed her eyes and didn’t refuse, clutching the hem of her skirt in embarrassment.

At that moment, the girl’s helpless appearance was like a fragile butterfly.

The string in Chen Suiyan’s heart, already stretched to its limit, suddenly snapped.

He remembered how, not long ago, Yun Rong had asked him with red-rimmed eyes, “Chen Suiyan, if I have to marry for an alliance, why can’t it be you?”

Chen Suiyan pulled the loosened tie from her hand and drew a controlled line between them. “I’m your uncle.”

He was the one who wanted to send her into an arranged marriage. Now he was also the one who couldn’t bear to let her go.

But once he couldn’t bear it, Chen Suiyan would never hand her over to someone else.

Theme: After the clouds clear, the moon will shine again