When I Die Before His Eyes

[Completed] A melodramatic hzc novel

1.

During the two years Qiao Yan and Jiang Yiming were married, they had a relationship in name only.

After disaster struck his family and his father's life hung by a thread, no one remembered that he had once been a rising star in show business. All they knew was that he was the secret lover of the young master of the Jiang family.

It took Qiao Yan two years to realize that Jiang Yiming wasn't his salvation, but an abyss. Jiang Yiming didn't love him, and had never even seen him as a person, only as an object, a tool.

He had been too idealistic.

By the time the last trace of love had been ground away, Qiao Yan stared numbly at the sullen man before him. His low, menacing warning pierced the silence: “If you want me to let you go, you'll have to die.”

Qiao Yan left their signed divorce papers behind and walked out of Jiang Yiming's villa. In return, Jiang Yiming had him blacklisted across the internet, along with another warning: “I'll make sure you can't go on living.”

His words came true. The car Jiang Yiming had given Qiao Yan sped into a wall in the middle of the street, caught fire, and exploded.

Qiao Yan died.

He died right before Jiang Yiming's eyes, leaving no trace of his body.

Jiang Yiming left everything to his assistant, acting as if he didn't care. But in the dead of night, he frantically searched for traces that Qiao Yan had ever existed.

The villa was empty. Nothing had been left behind.

He developed severe PTSD, insomnia, headaches, and anxiety.

Through countless silent nights, smoking one cigarette after another, he belatedly realized that without Qiao Yan, he couldn't survive even a single day.

2.

Two years later, in spring, the results of the art school entrance exams were announced.

The name “Qiao Yan,” alongside his first-place ranking among the “Four Great Academies,” shot to the top of the trending lists, setting the internet abuzz.

Qiao Yan was still alive.

He stood proudly on the awards podium, holding the Best Actor trophy and smiling at Jiang Yiming below. “See? I'm doing just fine.”

Qiao Yan walked away cleanly, but Jiang Yiming wouldn't let him go.

Then the two of them joined the same farming reality show, shocking everyone in and outside the industry.

Almost everyone expected Jiang Yiming to find ways to make Qiao Yan's life difficult. Paparazzi staked out the set all night, but the only thing they captured was Jiang Yiming kneeling before Qiao Yan, eyes bloodshot. “Yanyan, I'm sorry. Come back with me.”

[Reader's Guide]

* Down-on-his-luck young actor bottom x spoiled young master and CEO top

* Both are pure in body and mind; one-on-one romance, happy ending, no changing love interests

* A melodramatic chase-the-wife-to-the-crematorium story, with a dog-training romance and the powerful one bowing his head. The bottom suffers first, then the top, in roughly a 30-to-70 ratio

Theme: Only by relying on yourself can you have a better future