When the Snow Melts, Summer Arrives

Who does Tan Chuyao really love?

The nightclub was dimly lit. Thinking about the question, Jiang Linxue gave a self-mocking laugh.

She raised her head and saw a beautiful woman smiling at her. The woman had eyes and lips like Tan Chuyao's, and the same crimson beauty mark beneath her eye.

Alcohol burned through years of restraint. Without a second thought, Jiang Linxue grabbed her by the collar and kissed her.

"Call me Mingxia," the woman murmured with a laugh, biting Jiang Linxue's earlobe. "By sunrise, I'll make you forget her."

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From a one-night stand to a nightly affair, Mingxia worked her way into Jiang Linxue's life in just one short month.

In the little mansion Jiang Linxue had decorated herself, hoping to make it their marital home, Mingxia's presence lingered everywhere: in the bedroom, the kitchen, even at the turn of the stairs.

Surrender was not a word befitting an heiress. The day before the wedding, Jiang Linxue left the house to Mingxia, deleted all her contact information, and vanished from her life completely.

But the next day, she saw Mingxia at the wedding. With a cold expression, Tan Chuyao introduced her, word by deliberate word, as the younger sister who had only recently returned from abroad.

The woman being introduced smiled at her with foxlike eyes, just as she had the first time they met.

"Congratulations on your wedding, sister-in-law."

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Jiang Linxue would never know that Mingxia had yearned for that brief, fleeting affair for ten years.

The day she was brought back to the Tan family, Mingxia saw the girl she had fallen in love with at first sight two years earlier. But the girl was secretly kissing Mingxia's sister in name.

Reason wouldn't let Mingxia covet her sister-in-law, but she couldn't stop her feelings from spreading like a spiderweb.

Even during the eight years she spent abroad, Mingxia flew back and forth more than once, like a peeping tom, pretending to take part in Jiang Linxue's life from unseen corners.

Until that night, when she watched from the shadows as Tan Chuyao smashed a jade bracelet, then followed Jiang Linxue to a nightclub.

Mingxia got the month she had wished for, but she couldn't steal Jiang Linxue's heart.

On the day of the grand wedding between the Tan and Jiang families, Mingxia appeared before Jiang Linxue as Tan Mingxia for the first time. After the ceremony, she even pulled her into her private suite.

In the darkness, the two clung tightly to each other. Mingxia nipped at Jiang Linxue's ear, while her right hand had already wandered somewhere amid the rising passion.

Hearing the woman in her arms let out a muffled moan, Mingxia couldn't help laughing softly.

"Sister-in-law, what were you thinking, making your vows to her with my bite marks all over you?"

"Or do you just like the thrill of an affair?"

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Jiang Linxue x Tan Mingxia & Tan Chuyao

Cool-headed flirt x unhinged villainess & aloof, obsessive type

The female lead isn't perfect. An unhinged beauty fights fiercely for what she wants, while an untouchable beauty lowers her head for love. Read only if you're okay with that.

2025/5/11

Theme: When you discover something you can't change, don't give up. You should press forward bravely.