Stealing the Rain

The novel is complete. My next book will be a Hong Kong-style romance with a groveling ex and some coercive love, called Dyeing. You can find it in my collection!

Waiting for the right moment / coercive love / powerful man bows his head / stealing someone else's partner

[He didn't want to spend another night alone.]

One night, Yan Xun was driving past a street food stall when he happened to see a couple in the throes of love feeding each other. He sat in his car and watched for a long time.

He spent the whole night in the wind, fell ill, and took a long leave to recuperate at a villa in the suburbs.

After graduating from college, Qin Zhiyu wanted to get by in the human resources department at Yanhong Group. She usually preferred to keep a low profile.

Then one day, her department manager sent her to the suburbs to deliver some documents to President Yan.

When she saw Yan Xun sick, Qin Zhiyu took pity on him and made him a pot of congee.

She never expected him to become so fixated on her.

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Qin Zhiyu had always thought her boss was well-educated, gentlemanly, refined, worldly, and considerate of his employees. He seemed like a really good man.

So she never guarded herself against Yan Xun and did everything he asked, just to keep her boss happy and earn a raise so she could help her boyfriend pay his mortgage.

Until two months later...

That night, they were locked in the same room, and Yan Xun finally couldn't resist making a move on her.

He held tightly onto her ankle and leaned closer through the darkness, his seductive, peach-blossom eyes fixed on her, the corner of his mouth lifting. "I've given you so many perks. Isn't it time you paid me back?"

Qin Zhiyu didn't understand and backed away, but there was nowhere left to go. She asked timidly, "President Yan, I don't understand what you're talking about."

Yan Xun's gaze was deep, his fingertips growing hot as they tightened around her ankle. "Break up with him and be my girlfriend. From now on, you'll only have to please me."

It wasn't a request. It was a forceful demand.

Qin Zhiyu's whole worldview collapsed. The man she'd known for two months seemed like a different person: domineering, controlling, ruthless. He was a bad man.

Terrified but unwilling to give in, she resolved to secretly register her marriage with her boyfriend of five years.

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The day before they were due to go to the civil affairs bureau, Qin Zhiyu stepped into Yan Xun's bedroom again out of pity for his illness.

Alone together in the room, he leaned against the headboard and lazily looked her up and down before sneering. "You think marrying him means I can't do anything to you?"

Qin Zhiyu was so frightened that tears streamed down her face. She didn't dare challenge this madman.

The man forcibly pulled her into his arms, gently tracing her trembling lips with his fingertip as he coaxed her in a calm voice. "Why are you trembling? Just break up with him and date me. I won't treat you badly. I'll cherish you more than he ever did."

Qin Zhiyu pretended to be obedient and played along, weighing her options as she searched for a chance to escape.

But her family was her weakness, and that man had a tight grip on them. She didn't dare entertain the thought of escape anymore.

The day she broke up with her boyfriend, the man didn't care that someone was behind the door. He deliberately revealed himself through the peephole, letting her ex-boyfriend see him kissing her.

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Yan Xun had never planned to bully a young woman fresh out of college. It went against the gentlemanly image he'd cultivated for himself.

But she had barged into his barren wilderness, where years of growth and decay had left nothing behind, like a radiant sunflower. She left a seed that sprouted roots and took over his territory.

From that moment on, he decided: this flower would bloom in his garden alone, forever.

[Reading Guide]

1. The female lead has previous sexual experience, the male lead does not. They sleep together after she breaks up with her boyfriend.

2. Scheming, dangerously obsessive powerful man x easygoing, pure little white flower

3. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

4. Weibo: @ChenDajiuShiGuCaoSophia. Please add my novel to your collection!

This is a story of unrequited love that turns into stealing someone else's partner.

No need to think too hard. I just wanted to write an old-school coercive-love story for a bit of excitement in an otherwise dull life. This is not intended to encourage harmful behavior. Underage readers should stay away! Please maintain a healthy worldview!

My next book will be a Hong Kong-style romance with a groveling ex and some coercive love, Dyeing. If you're interested, please add it to your collection!

[Blurb]

Groveling ex / coercive love / eight-year age gap / Hong Kong style

[Being near her will dye everything in bright colors.]

The youngest daughter of Hong Kong's jewelry tycoon, Hou Yulin, was free-spirited and bold. For 22 years, she had lived as she pleased, and no one dared to control her.

The eldest son of the Huo family, Huo Wenheng, had called the head of the Hou family, Hou Baochang, his godfather since childhood. Their families were close. Hou Baochang valued Huo Wenheng, and when Hou Yulin turned 18, he announced that he would marry his precious daughter to him.

But Huo Wenheng rejected Old Master Hou's kind offer in front of both the Huo and Hou families. "Godfather, Yulin is my younger sister. I'll always think of her as my sister."

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Hou Yulin had admired Huo Wenheng since childhood. After he turned down the marriage, she felt humiliated and began dating men to get back at him, but none of those relationships lasted longer than three months.

When she was 22, Hou Yulin returned from studying abroad with her new boyfriend, a doctor, and introduced him to her family and Huo Wenheng.

Huo Wenheng didn't take it seriously. They would break up within three months at most.

But Hou Yulin held her boyfriend's hand and firmly told them, "Daddy, Mommy, Big Brother, I want to marry Ivan."

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That early autumn, the weather bureau announced that a typhoon was approaching. The whole of Hong Kong sounded the alarm, advising residents to stay indoors.

Neither Huo Wenheng nor Hou Yulin's boyfriend Ivan could leave the Hou residence.

On a night of thunder, lightning, wind, and rain, Hou Yulin was trapped in a man's arms and couldn't get away. She bit his shoulder hard. "Huo Wenheng, you bastard! Let go of me!"

"Why don't you shout louder, like you did when you were with me at eighteen? Let your boyfriend hear exactly what we're doing." Huo Wenheng's refined, cold features looked more and more twisted and frightening in the flashes of lightning.

"If you didn't want to marry me back then, why are you interfering with who I want to marry now? I love Ivan. I want to marry him!"

"Do you think you can still marry him if he sees us like this?" He put his hand on the doorknob.

Hou Yulin grabbed him, crying and shaking her head. Huo Wenheng caught the tears from the corner of her eye with his lips and coaxed her softly. "Be good. Break up with him, and I'll marry you."

That night, Hou Yulin finally saw Huo Wenheng for who he really was.

He was a jackal that had been lurking by her side for years.

It wasn't that he didn't want to marry her. He simply liked taking what belonged to someone else.

A tug-of-war between a powerful Hong Kong tycoon and the heiress of a wealthy Hong Kong family.

They are godbrother and godsister, with no blood relation.

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Theme: Pursue happiness with purpose.