A Heart in Hiding [Winning Her Back]

△ Up next: A Little Pleasure Before Marriage, Summer Ripples

The Wife-Chasing Crematorium | A Fake Playboy Hero x A Truly Unhinged Heroine | HE

In the eyes of outsiders, Qin Shiyao is a delicate flower of wealth. What a pity that she has to marry into the Li family, to the second young master.

The Li family is one of the capital's top elite families. Second Young Master Li Chuan is perfect in every way, except that he is far too promiscuous.

Some people speculate that, given Qin Shiyao's meek personality, after the wedding she'll probably be driven to death by all the women who flock around the second young master.

At the wedding, Li Chuan looks listless, which only makes his handsome face all the more dangerously alluring.

The man leans close, a lipstick mark left by someone else still on his neck, and asks, "Your father wants my family's help. What do you want?"

Qin Shiyao takes out a wet wipe and carefully cleans the lipstick mark off his neck. Smiling with clever sweetness, she says, "I want you."

To play with me.

*

One late night later on, she affectionately hooks an arm around Li Chuan's neck and kisses him. "Honey, I want the freshly braised duck wings from Butterfly Lane."

A round trip to Butterfly Lane takes two hours by car.

Half-asleep, the man kisses her tenderly to his heart's content, his voice low and full of indulgence. "Wait here."

So he drives out into the bitter winter night, wrapping his coat around the still-warm braised food on the way back.

When he opens the door, no one is waiting for him. Qin Shiyao has already left.

Li Chuan once thought Qin Shiyao was all beauty and no soul, a marionette who did nothing but obey her elders.

She had married into the family for an alliance and followed him around with single-minded devotion.

She was always timidly holding his hand, sometimes shedding a few little pearls.

So pitiful, so vexing.

Just as he fell deeply in love with her, she disappeared.

Half a year later, they meet again on a rainy night in an unfamiliar city.

She is still wearing that pure white dress, standing in the rain, her gaze clear and cool, with not a trace of her former self.

She smiles at him, her long hair flying: "A prop in hand, playing along for the occasion. Second Young Master, you didn't take it seriously, did you?"

A few handsome young men stand behind her, all tall and long-legged, a pleasure to look at. They hold an umbrella over her, carry her bags, and open the door of a McLaren 650S for her.

They call her "Boss."

It turns out she was never a pretty puppet controlled by someone else.

She is the puppeteer pulling the strings.

And he was merely a chess piece she happened to bind to herself.

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine knows how to disguise herself. Everyone is a camera through which we see her. She has everyone wrapped around her finger, and the hero chases his wife to the crematorium.

2. Both leads are each other's first and only.

3. HE.

4. Thanks to the kind reader bs for gifting me a character card.

Up next: A Little Pleasure Before Marriage

Su Nianning comes from a wealthy family. With two older brothers shouldering the family responsibilities, all she has to do in life is enjoy herself.

And dating handsome men is her idea of fun.

One day, she brings home a man named Yanzhou.

Yanzhou's background is unknown. He is aloof and indifferent to everything, but has a handsome, refined face.

Like someone playing a game, Su Nianning eagerly pieces together the mystery of his past.

After a while, she no longer wants to solve the mystery. She just wants to see him fall in love.

So she coaxes him with sweet words, tempts him, and urges him to put in a little more effort.

One night of pleasure, with no thought for tomorrow.

When her family makes it clear that she must marry as soon as she graduates, she dumps Yanzhou.

Later, Su Nianning's mother takes her to meet a potential match.

Rumor has it that this man is decisive and ruthless, and even his own family elders steer clear of him.

At the meeting, Su Nianning suddenly seems a little ill at ease. Her mother smiles and explains to the man, "My Nian Nian is reserved, easily embarrassed, and slow to warm up. Just give her a little time to get comfortable with you."

With every additional adjective, Jiang Yanzhou's smile grows a little wider.

Su Nianning knows her comeuppance has arrived.

One hot, sweaty night.

Jiang Yanzhou is above her, looking straight at her with a smile:

"Didn't you say you liked this, Nian Nian?"

"You were the one who taught me everything."

"You and I are a perfect match."

[We fell in love today, and we have countless tomorrows ahead]

Coming Soon: Summer Ripples

Mutual Secret Crushes | Rising Starlet x Capital City's Young Master | Reunited After Years Apart

After graduating from college, Song Wanqiao takes the stage as a trainee in a girl group.

Just before the finals, the program's biggest sponsor comes to observe the preparations, and she spots Zhou Lingyi in the crowd.

The refined, noble man is surrounded by admirers. The girls, knowing they shouldn't let themselves fall for him, are still eager to catch his attention by any means they can.

Song Wanqiao, however, hides.

Who could have guessed that the aloof, handsome school heartthrob so many girls had secretly adored in high school was actually a noble young master from the capital's elite circle?

While she gets up at dawn and works late into the night, clumsily learning to dance and falling until she's covered in bruises just to earn a two-thousand-yuan appearance fee, Zhou Lingyi can casually spend twenty million yuan in a single night.

They are worlds apart.

On the day of the finals, she misses her chance to debut and hides backstage to cry.

A shadow suddenly falls over her. She looks up, and the handsome young man, once surrounded by people, is standing before her, looking down at her as he asks, "Why are you avoiding me?"

Song Wanqiao sniffles, tears still clinging to her lashes. Her voice is hoarse as she asks, "You remember me?"

Zhou Lingyi crouches down and offers her an Alpen candy. "Don't cry. Today's disappointment might not be a bad thing."

*

A few years ago, in the height of summer, in a quiet third-tier seaside town.

Troubled by changes at home, Zhou Lingyi sits in a corner of the school grounds, brooding as he looks at the scenery.

A bright-eyed girl quietly approaches and offers him an Alpen candy, clumsily trying to comfort him:

"Don't be sad. You can try again at next year's Math Olympiad. This disappointment might not be a bad thing."

Zhou Lingyi freezes. When he realizes what she thinks, he understands that she believes he's upset about failing to qualify for the physics competition.

In truth, he'd just been in a bad mood that day and turned in a blank paper.

The lovely girl has no idea what is really troubling him, yet she dispels the gloom in his heart and lets the bright sunlight in.

Theme: Strive to live your life.