Softly Falling Snow

[Marriage first, love later / heroine uses him / clear-headed woman x devoted man]

Heartless love scammer x vindictive young master from an eminent family

For Shen Qing, this marriage

was merely a calculated transaction, a carefully planned approach.

For Ji Yanli, it was nothing more than a casual affair, something he could take or leave.

Six months after the wedding, Shen Qing got what she wanted, bought a plane ticket in the middle of the night, and quietly ran away.

By the pond in the back garden of the ancestral home, Ji Yanli leaned against a rockery, looking at the divorce papers that had arrived from across the ocean.

"Shen Qing's something else. She used you and then ran," his friend laughed. "After all the good you've done for her."

The man being mocked acted as if he hadn't heard. He tossed bait into the pond and gave a faint smile.

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A month later, he crossed the ocean and caught up with her.

On the second-floor balcony of a villa, he lifted the woman in his arms and sat her on the railing, suspended above the ground.

The sudden sensation of weightlessness made Shen Qing gasp. But the next second, he spoke in a flippant tone, his voice steeped in the cool night breeze. "What if I don't sign?"

"You don't want to be with me?" He smiled, pressing a hand to her wrist as if joking. "But I just like forcing you."

[In the bitter winter snow, flakes fell thickly onto his black coat. He said he'd probably saved up every Buddha he'd never worshipped for this day. He wouldn't pray for marriage or ask about the future, only that she be safe.]

[That day, beneath the vast snowfall, someone knelt and prayed all the way up the mountain.]

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