After Proposing to a Disabled Tycoon

[Next up: Half-Summer Blossoms and Heartfelt Rain, Tidal Song]

Ji Shiwei is famous in the entertainment industry for getting ahead through connections.

Ever since her debut, she's had a steady stream of major and minor opportunities. Her publicity team takes every chance to put down senior stars and her peers, and in interviews she takes pride in having spent years at the top of the acting hall of shame.

She's a true beauty, but otherwise utterly useless, a complete pretty face.

Then an accident changed everything.

Everyone thought Ji Shiwei's good days were over.

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Gu Huaiyu was born into a prominent Jiangnan family, the scion of a wealthy and powerful clan.

As the heir to the Gu family of Wu Commandery, he is refined and distinguished, gentle yet aloof.

Everyone knows he's the tycoon worth hundreds of billions behind the actress Ji Shiwei.

But an accident changed his life.

His left leg was amputated, leaving him permanently disabled.

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The haters crowed and celebrated Ji Shiwei's disappearance.

Then notification after notification popped up on their phones, bringing their revelry to a halt.

[Letter from a lawyer]

From the Legal Affairs Department of the Gu Group

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Later on

By the shore of Su Lake in Xicheng,

at the annual fashion gala,

In the drizzle, a man carrying a black-lacquered silverwood cane slowly made his way to the podium to address the guests.

As he walked, the metallic gleam at his left ankle caught everyone's eye.

"I will give my present and my future to one person."

"She is my wife, the one I love."

He looked at the woman in the center of the front row, his gaze tender and lingering.

His aloofness seemed to melt away, leaving only a gentle stream of affection.

"The one and only Ji Shiwei."

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When it comes to fate, don't ask whether it's fair.

[Beautiful as a painting, a fake pretty face X powerful and influential, a scion of an old family]

Coming next: Half-Summer Blossoms

[Launching in March] Mutual pining | Second chance romance | A powerful man humbles himself for love

Song Yiran first met Ye Jincheng at the opening ceremony of the school year.

At the time, Ye Jincheng stood on the stage, brimming with confidence and displaying the refined elegance of a distinguished family.

As her feelings for him quietly blossomed, Song Yiran worked up the courage to confess.

Amid the cicadas' chirping, she heard him promise her an answer.

But the next day, Ye Jincheng disappeared.

No one knew where he had gone or what had happened. Only Song Yiran understood.

They were two parallel lines that could never meet.

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Ye Jincheng was born into a prominent Jiangnan family. He was refined and cool, aloof yet elegant, and took charge of his family's affairs at a young age.

Everyone in their circle knew that a promise from Ye Jincheng was worth more than a fortune.

But a car accident changed everything.

He became a permanent paraplegic.

The first lie of his life was to the girlfriend he'd just started dating.

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Song Yiran saw Ye Jincheng again during a torrential downpour on the summer solstice.

He appeared in her shop in a wheelchair, soaked through and utterly bedraggled, yet still staring intently at the silver ring on her left ring finger.

"I'm engaged," she said.

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Song Yiran had always thought their meeting was an accident.

Until the day his old diary from the time he was ill came to light.

The fragile, crumbling pages were covered with her name, written again and again.

Everything in the world, including me, is a desolate silence.

At this moment, I miss you.

[Bonus scene]

A black Phantom was always parked across from the cafe, understated yet luxurious, but no one had ever been seen getting in or out.

Then came the day of the torrential rain. As pedestrians hurried beneath the eaves to shelter, they watched as the car door finally opened.

The young man didn't take an umbrella. Alone in his wheelchair, he made his way into the rain.

*Refined, possessive, genuinely disabled heir to a prominent family X gentle and resilient, fake pretty-face cafe owner

Before you read:

* Healing romance, SC, 1v1

* The male lead is genuinely disabled. He will undergo rehabilitation, but will not recover completely.

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Theme: When it comes to fate, all we can do is rely on ourselves