Consumed by Devotion

#Completed in full on May 29, 2025. The next book is Second Marriage. Sina Weibo: Sui Yu Q#

#Mutual pining + a touch of groveling, same male lead throughout#

When Jian Qiu was seven, her mother, a cook, suddenly brought a boy back from the city.

With her hair in two little buns, Jian Qiu sized him up, finger in her mouth. The boy was called Qin Shichu. He was tall and handsome, and clearly a better fighter than the boy next door, Xiao Li's older brother.

They lived together for five years. He looked after her and protected her, and, just like the song lyrics, molded a city out of mud for her and promised to marry her one day.

But before she could grow up, he went back to the city, and they never saw each other again. Later, her parents died suddenly, and at sixteen she became an orphan. The Qin family took her in.

By then, her brother had earned his master's degree and inherited the family business. Not a trace of the boy she had known remained in his manner.

He was still good to her, but he never mentioned marrying her when she grew up again. She watched his romantic scandals fill the gossip magazines, with one rumored girlfriend after another. The promise from their childhood gradually faded on the wind.

She couldn't accept it and decided to be brave one last time and confess to him. But on the eve of her confession, she saw him embracing the woman rumored to be his one true love. Her heart finally died completely.

She left him, changed all her contact information, and tried to seal away every memory of him.

In the middle of a torrential downpour, someone suddenly knocked on her door. A handsome, tall man stood outside, his eyes deep. "I finally found you."

He said, "You have always been my one true love."

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#Divorce feels great, until you have to grovel to win her back#

At nineteen, Jiang Yunqing fell in love at first sight with her senior, Xu Lanshi, outside the university gates. They quickly fell head over heels, became inseparable, and eagerly got their marriage license the following year.

Who knew marriage would become the graveyard of their love? Living together day and night shattered their rose-tinted illusions, and they gradually came to find each other unbearable.

When Jiang Yunqing graduated, the three-year-long marriage of mutual resentment finally ended in a noisy divorce. Outside the civil affairs bureau, they pointed at each other and swore they would each find a next partner ten thousand times better.

Several years later, their parents each pressured them into business marriages. They unexpectedly met at a matchmaking dinner, where it became painfully clear that both were still single.

Jiang Yunqing: As long as I'm not embarrassed, everyone else is.

Xu Lanshi: Same here.

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.