Ginger Huai

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[Marriage first, love later / 1v1 / HE / painter daughter of a nouveau riche family × only heir and domineering CEO of an old-money clan]

At eighteen, Jiang Huai kissed a strange man by force at her cousin's wedding, just to vent her anger.

That very night, her cousin forgot all about his new bride and rushed her to the Fu family villa to apologize. But the butler told them, "Mr. Fu flew to Germany this afternoon."

*

Jiang Huai got into the best local art academy and met someone online who went by Der Mond.

In her junior year, she sold the most expensive oil painting she'd ever painted, but the buyer never paid the balance.

She went to the gallery to demand her money, but got nowhere. Then she complained to Der Mond: "They think they can take advantage of students just because we're cheap!"

On her way home, she stopped to buy beer, hoping to drown her sorrows like everyone else. Only after drinking did she remember she'd taken the wrong medicine for her headache.

Jiang Huai froze, then messaged Der Mond: "I'm screwed. I drank after taking cephalosporins. Am I going to die?"

*

Jiang Huai woke up in a hospital. A man in a tailored suit sat beside her bed, watching her with calm eyes. "Don't recognize me?"

She tried to remember the face of someone who clearly wasn't to be trifled with. Then the memory of her cousin's wedding suddenly came back...

She was horrified. "!?"

The man braced his arms on either side of her bed and smiled. "You shouldn't take advantage of students. And you shouldn't take advantage of me, either."

*

On a stormy night,

Jiang Huai was soaked to the skin, raindrops falling from the tips of her hair one by one onto the ground.

Fu Mingsheng leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, looking down at her. "What does your father see in Lu Yunsong?"

She gave a self-mocking laugh. "...His money, I guess."

"The Lu family's assets aren't worth it." Fu Mingsheng leaned against the wall, his tone cool and casual. "You could skip the middleman and marry me."

Theme: Some gossip just isn't true.