Bruised

◎From casual partners to a real relationship | Going crazy for love | Bittersweet melodrama | Instinctive attraction | Coercive possession

◎Proud, teasing fake good girl × dark, obsessive heir

The Zong and Wu families have never gotten along. Wu Rui, the obedient younger daughter of the Wu family, has been warned by her elders time and again to have nothing to do with the Zong family.

Especially their only son, Zong Baiye.

Wu Rui obediently agrees.

She hates arrogant young masters like him, who rely on their looks and privileged family background to treat everyone with aloof disdain.

And yet, as soon as she turns around, she secretly gets involved with him.

“Don’t tear this dress.” She reaches behind her to push him back. “I still want to wear it.”

She tries to stop him, but he grabs her waist and pulls her back into his arms. “I’ll buy you another one.”

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In Wu Rui’s eyes, Zong Baiye is practically the perfect lover.

They don’t interfere in each other’s lives, he isn’t clingy, they give each other plenty of space, and he’s very attentive afterward...

Even his need to control what she eats and wears at all times is just the right amount of a virtue for someone as lazy as her.

But later, she never expected him to be a genuinely obsessive lunatic.

From the very beginning, he’s been stalking her social media, silently reading her lips, and secretly sabotaging the marriage alliances her family arranges for her.

“Don’t even think about leaving me.”

“I don’t care which family you’re matched with. I’ll ruin every arrangement. Even if you marry someone else in the end, I’ll make sure you become a widow.”

“Don’t worry. Even if I die, I’ll make sure we’re buried together.”

A lunatic...

Wu Rui opens her mouth, but no sound comes out.

Alongside her fear, there’s also a strange flicker of excitement.

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◎Each other’s one and only | Five-year age gap | Happy ending

◎Obsessive, sickly man × woman starved for love

◎Neither character is perfect. They have low moral standards and deeply, deeply unhealthy ideas about love.

◎The male lead is possessive, crazy, and extremely obsessive. He can’t live without the female lead.

◎An overwhelming amount of romance, with tension throughout

Please bookmark my next book, A Misaligned Rewind~

◎Male stand-in | Marriage before love | Powerful man bows his head and goes crazy for love | Messy, angsty romance

◎Gentle and considerate on the surface, but actually cold and heartless × self-deluding, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside, wronged husband

Meng Yuqing has been in the entertainment industry for years but has never become particularly popular.

The comment people make about her most often is that she has a face that could never love anyone.

Tan Shiyue is refined and elegant, a young success and a famous heir to a wealthy family.

Though they seem to have nothing in common, the two have been secretly married for years.

It was an arrangement of convenience, with neither of them interested in love.

Until one evening at a banquet, Tan Shiyue steps away for a moment. When he returns, he hears a friend teasing Meng Yuqing, asking when she fell for him.

The man slows to a stop and doesn’t approach for a long time.

A moment later, he hears her hesitate before answering, “I can’t remember. It must have been a long time ago, before I met him.”

Her friend mistakes her hesitation for shyness. “So it was a secret crush?!”

Meng Yuqing smiles but doesn’t deny it.

That night, he holds the exhausted woman as she sleeps and smiles, kissing the corner of her eye.

So the tenderness and consideration she showed him weren’t just a way to trade favors.

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Later, Tan Shiyue receives an old camcorder.

On the recording, Meng Yuqing kisses another man, jokes with him, and makes promises.

And that man’s profile looks very much like his.

Tan Shiyue stares at the face on the screen. For the first time, he feels himself losing control.

No wonder it was before she met him...

On the day she’s secretly photographed with a male actor from her production, and rumors start spreading, Meng Yuqing finds Tan Shiyue in a dim hotel room. He should be abroad right now.

His expression is unreadable. “Isn’t having one face like this, mine, enough for you?”

The man in the rumors, Tan Shiyue, and the man in the recording all have a small brown mole on the right side of the bridge of their noses.

“Your short-lived ex’s stand-in.” He grips her chin. “How many more do you want?”

Meng Yuqing looks up in shock. “He wasn’t my ex!”

“If he wasn’t your ex, then what was he? I’m your legal husband. A man like him...” Tan Shiyue pauses, suddenly thinks of a word, and smiles. “A homewrecker?”

A mistress who breaks up someone else’s marriage.

Theme: Love conquers all