A Fool's Dream [Rekindled Romance]

| Complete. Earlier sections have been revised and polished. No responsibility is taken for pirated copies.

| Mutual secret crushes, a broken relationship made whole again, possessiveness spiraling out of control vs. taking back control

1.

Xi Xia would never forget the day He Tingyun entered her life.

The family she had found without blood ties had scattered, while her biological relatives wanted to destroy her. He Tingyun was like a ray of light descending casually into her darkest hour, reaching out to her.

He had only come to look after her at a friend's request. He coaxed her casually: "Be good, and I'll grant you one wish."

But she was caught in a delusion, gripping him as she told him the wish that haunted her like a nightmare: "I want a family of my own."

That very day, a marriage certificate was laid on the table.

He really did become her family.

2.

Xi Xia had thought she was in a marriage-first, love-later story.

She thought that three years of marriage would warm He Tingyun's cold, ruthless heart, hardened by the business world, and turn their absurd beginning into a happy ending.

As it turned out, she was wrong.

When the divorce papers were placed in front of him, He Tingyun didn't look the least bit surprised.

He just gazed at her, his voice low. "Have you made up your mind?"

As if he were signing just another contract, he turned his wrist and wrote his name decisively, his expression flawless.

His composure reminded her of something she'd once overheard him say to someone else.

"Being his wife isn't enough to keep her occupied. Do I have to love her, too?"

"That's not how you dream."

Only then did she understand.

She had been the only one who thought their meeting was a beautiful dream of salvation.

3.

Ever since he came of age, He Tingyun had always remained calm and controlled.

He never let his emotions show, and he had never once gotten drunk.

Yet after their divorce, at a glittering event where their paths crossed again, Xi Xia shone beneath the lights. She gave him a slight nod like he was a stranger and addressed him formally as "Mr. He."

He Tingyun sat slumped in a corner, drinking one glass after another, until he was so drunk he couldn't remember how he had frantically stopped her.

All he remembered was his hoarse, pleading voice: "Wife, will you come home with me?"

To his surprise, her cold, beautiful lips parted, her words icy: "No."

"Mr. He, that's not how you dream."

4.

But do you really know what I dream about?

There was no friend who had asked me to look after you.

You have always been the only, most magnificent dream of my life.

* One-on-one, both leads have no prior sexual partners, no switching male leads

Theme: Pursuing what you love to the utmost is how you stay true to your original aspirations