A spoiled, proud heiress from Hong Kong × a powerful, scholarly businessman and sly old fox from Beijing
* Eight-year age gap
* The heroine is never officially engaged. Her uncle, the male lead, steals her away before that can happen.
Recently, all the gossip columns in Hong Kong have been abuzz. The only cherished daughter of the city's financial and industrial magnate, Tang Yanyao, the most beautiful heiress in high society, is set to follow her father Tang Xiongshen's plans and marry into the Yi family, Beijing's top family.
The Hong Kong media splash the headlines across their front pages:
[Candidate for a billion-yuan daughter-in-law, Tang Yanyao. Little does her father know he's "selling" her to a mainland tycoon family.]
[Yolanda marries up into a mainland tycoon family. Hong Kong's other elite families lose their chance at the most beautiful daughter-in-law.]
[The Yi family is rumored to have a century of prestige and assets worth trillions, leaving Hong Kong's top five richest men far behind.]
Newspapers throughout Hong Kong and the other elite families are abuzz: Tang Yanyao is to marry the fifth-generation son of the Yi family, a young master from a tycoon clan.
Tang Yanyao is deeply unhappy with her father's sudden decision to arrange a marriage for her and refuses to accept it. On the day the two families meet for the engagement banquet, she forces a smile, but the moment she enters, she sees her future fiancé humbly pouring tea for a man whose gaze is as dark as ink, unfathomably deep, and fixed on her the entire time.
The man is Yi Qinghang, whom she hasn't seen in two months.
Two months ago, she fell in love at first sight with Yi Qinghang in Paris and chased him all the way to Shanghai. But after she pursued him for two months and he remained unmoved, she gave up!
Only then does Tang Yanyao learn that her prospective fiancé's uncle is Yi Qinghang.
Tang Yanyao thinks, if they can't be husband and wife, being relatives isn't so bad.
Her foxlike eyes curve into a charming smile. She picks up the teapot and pours the man tea first. "It's our first time meeting, Uncle. Please have some tea. We'll be relatives from now on."
Yi Qinghang sits in the seat of authority in the Yi family.
His burning gaze remains fixed on Tang Yanyao's feigned hospitality.
"..."
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Among Beijing's powerful families, only Yi Qinghang qualifies as the most sought-after bachelor. As head of the Yi family, he is serene and refined, steady and poised, a renowned scholarly businessman with an impressive record in the business world.
No one ever imagined his only romantic scandal would involve his nephew's fiancée, meeting secretly at Victoria Harbour.
The news that an uncle stole his nephew's fiancée dominates the Hong Kong headlines the next day.
Meanwhile, the woman at the center of the scandal, Tang Yanyao, is limp with exhaustion, held captive by the man's arm around her waist as he teases her chin in a moonlit tryst.
In the presidential suite, the man asks in a calm voice, "Are you still going to call me Uncle?"
"Are you really going to give up control of the Yi family in exchange for marrying me?" Tang Yanyao asks in Cantonese.
Yi Qinghang learned Cantonese for her. He rubs her lips and answers in a mix of Cantonese and Beijing speech: "Who said that? I want both the kingdom and the beauty."
Tang Yanyao: "..."
How did she ever think he was a gentleman?
This man is clearly an old fox.
Bonus scene:
Recently, explosive gossip has joined the scandal spreading all across Hong Kong about Tang Yanyao, the woman at the center of the Victoria Harbour affair, and her fiancé's uncle, the Yi family's head, having a secret tryst.
[Breaking news: Tang Yanyao is pregnant!!!]
The news sets the whole city abuzz. The elite families, newspapers, TV stations, and Hong Kong residents are all asking: who's the father of the baby in Tang Yanyao's belly?
Is it her ex-boyfriend of one day, David, the young heir to the Zhong Group? Is it Yi Junjie, the fifth-generation young master of the Yi family and her arranged fiancé? Or is it the Yi family's fourth-generation head, her uncle, Yi Qinghang?
Yi Qinghang wears the family's ruby signet ring on his left hand. His broad right hand grips the slender waist of Tang Yanyao, seated on his lap.
His commanding gaze silences everyone as he declares with the authority of the family head:
"The child is mine."
Preorder: "Glass Butterfly"
A former golden boy of a racing driver who later becomes a powerful figure in Beijing × a bold, passionate heiress who later becomes a caged butterfly
1
While hanging out with a group of friends in a private room, Qu Xin drains a bottle of beer amid the rowdy fun. She climbs onto the bar and drunkenly declares her possessive love: "Shen Zhan is mine. None of you can make me stop loving him!"
In the dark, Shen Zhan sits in the center of the sofa, idly turning a motorcycle key between his fingers. He looks up and coolly glances at the perfectly sober Qu Xin, ignoring her confession.
2
One night, in the wind and pounding rain, the rain runs down Qu Xin's cheeks as she stands beneath a streetlight, eyes red.
Qu Xin stands in the rain, shivering. "Why can't you give me one chance, Shen Zhan?"
Shen Zhan's low, cold voice rings clearly through the rain. "I'm not interested in dating you."
3
Years later, everyone in Beijing says that Shen Zhan, son of the Shen family, is keeping an exquisite "butterfly."
Those who have never seen the "butterfly" spread rumors that the new powerful man in Beijing rejected a marriage alliance with the Lin family for this privately kept "butterfly." Those who have seen her know she was once the proudest heiress among the heirs of Beijing's elite families.
One day, at a banquet, someone sneers at the "butterfly" kept by the powerful Shen family patriarch. "Shen Zhan is the head of the Shen family. Qu Xin is nothing but a sparrow from a fallen family. A bird is just something for him to keep himself entertained. She's a worthless plaything."
The next day, that person's family business plummets, and their ruin is utterly devastating.
From then on, no one dares say a bad word about the "butterfly" kept by the powerful Shen family patriarch.
4
At dawn on the day she leaves Shen Zhan, Qu Xin believes she'll never see him again, and that she'll never again be Beijing's proud rose.
"Shen Zhan, please let me go, all right?" Qu Xin says to the man kissing her, her hair spread across the bed, damp with sweat and still in his suit.
This is Qu Xin's ninety-ninth time asking him.
The heat of his kiss still lingers along her ear. Shen Zhan's dark eyes shift to her at her words. He gently lifts her chin with his fingertips, his gaze intense and full of love.
His voice is husky and restrained. "All right... This time, I'll agree."
His words end there.
"As long as you get pregnant with my child, I'll let you go."
Once a butterfly has a master, she is no longer free.
He doesn't remember her as the butterfly everyone talks about. He only remembers that she was once the rose who captivated him most.
Theme: Every girl should love herself first when it comes to romance
I really can't bear to keep up with the updates. I cried at the end, it was so touching and I loved it to no end. Finally, I will tell you more about how good Jin Ruo is with her foreign boyfriend 🐰 Like to watch this
I cried after reading the last chapter 😭
😭 😭 They are so happy in this life
Woohoo, it's so good that I cried. The last chapter.
Did you cry while reading the last chapter?
Woo woo woo woo? So touched? Madam, you know how to write.
Why do I think the male protagonist is the one in control and the female protagonist is the subordinate?
But looking at the father, mother, and even the sister-in-law of the male and female protagonist... I feel so sad. I promised that the two-dimensional characters will live forever 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭
I always remember the scene where the male protagonist wrote the letter and threw it into the box. It filled the hole a lot! It's so beautiful. Black woo woo woo.
I'm crying so much. Can you write a bonus episode? Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo