Passionate Spring Nights

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Marriage first, love later / chasing his wife to the crematorium

Cold and abstinent x brave and direct / private equity tycoon x investment banking newcomer

1

At twenty-four, Liang Zhaoyue was bewitched and married a man she'd only met a few times.

At the time, her family was ordinary, and she rushed from place to place just to survive, like an ant. Zhou Yunchuan, meanwhile, was a well-known tycoon in private equity, decisive in his actions and indifferent in temperament. Rumor had it that he kept his distance from women.

Liang Zhaoyue understood the gap between them. She also knew Zhou Yunchuan had asked her to enter a marriage of convenience because she was easygoing and sensible, and would make it easier for him to deal with his family elders.

But she clung to a sliver of hope, wishing their make-believe could become real.

She never expected her heartfelt devotion to earn her this response from Zhou Yunchuan: "There's nothing special about her. We're just using each other."

Liang Zhaoyue came to her senses at once, handed him the divorce papers, and left for Shencheng.

2

News of their divorce spread quickly. Friends who knew the details sighed that, after all these years, no one had ever made Zhou Yunchuan willing to bend. He'd even offered to give up half his premarital assets, yet he still insisted on the divorce.

Then someone noticed Zhou Yunchuan had been making frequent trips to Shencheng. His friends assumed he was expanding his business and asked to join him, but he turned them down.

A curious onlooker followed him to find out what was going on. That's when they learned that the usually lofty Zhou Yunchuan was lowering himself for the first time and learning how to pursue someone.

[She was the one thing he never saw coming.]

[I never understood what it meant to fall in love until I met you.]

* The heroine goes to graduate school before entering the workforce.

* The leads are both inexperienced in love / happy ending / eight-year age gap.

* All financial examples and information in the story come from online research and are marked with *1, *2, *3.

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My next novel, Day and Night in Rapture. Please add it to your reading list!

Physical first, emotional later / chasing his wife to the crematorium

Cold and abstinent x bright and spoiled / private equity tycoon x investment banking elite

1

Shen Qingli is doted on by her parents and is both spoiled and gentle by nature. Tan Bie is ruthless and decisive, cold and aloof, with an air that warns strangers to stay away.

They are complete opposites, and no one thinks they have anything to do with each other.

But in places where no one can see them, they become entangled so intimately that they could devour one another.

2

Tan Bie is famous for being cold and heartless. Shen Qingli's family elders have warned her more than once that he isn't a suitable partner.

But Shen Qingli refuses to believe them. Like a moth to a flame, she gives herself to him wholeheartedly, hoping to warm his heart.

Until one night, when she is about to lay their relationship bare and take things further, she accidentally hears him tell his family, "Just because I'm with her, does that mean I have to enter into a marriage? Isn't that too high a price to pay?"

3

Their ridiculous relationship lasts for two years before Shen Qingli calls it quits.

Tan Bie doesn't try to stop her. He only says, "If you run into trouble, contact me."

Shen Qingli leaves and never looks back.

At first, Tan Bie doesn't care. A brief fling, a relationship in which they comforted each other, wouldn't leave much of a mark on his life.

Until one rainy night, he comes home and sees Shen Qingli sharing an umbrella with a man, their silhouettes intimately close.

Not long afterward, he hears that Shen Qingli is about to get engaged.

For the first time since their breakup, he calls her.

"If you don't want this arranged marriage, I can take care of it for you."

Shen Qingli's bright, amused voice comes from the other end. "Mr. Tan, is this the trouble you meant when you broke up with me? Sorry, I'm getting engaged of my own free will."

That night, Tan Bie sits beneath Shen Qingli's apartment building until morning.

Later, for the first time in his life, he learns what it means to make one mistake and regret it for the rest of your life.

Theme: Live freely and strive upward. Be brave and passionate.