Scheming Male Lead Rises to Power / Married First, Fall in Love Later / Second Male Lead Tries to Win Her Back, but Fails
Highlight: The male lead is Jiang Shiyu!
1.
When Song Sui was ten, she was brought back to the Xu family and adopted.
Back then, she was small and frail, sensitive and gentle, always living with careful apprehension.
Whenever she was bullied as a child, she would hide in an abandoned factory, sitting on moss-covered stone steps with her skirt hem clutched tight in her hands.
Then one day, in the glow of the setting sun, Xu Shiqin stepped onto the stairs and, silhouetted against the light, took her hand.
"From now on, hide behind me. They won't dare bully you."
Someone stood up to protect her when she was at her most insecure.
From then on, someone made a home in her heart and stayed there for eighteen years.
2.
Song Sui cherished her feelings with great care and worked hard to keep up with him.
From No. 3 High School to the Provincial Experimental School, from insecure to radiant, she spent eighteen years lying in wait, through countless dawns and dusks, six thousand days and nights, all to get closer to him.
One day, the diary filled with a young girl's secrets was made public, stirring up a storm across the city.
Later, at a banquet, a group of young heirs gathered together. Someone asked Xu Shiqin what he thought about the matter.
Xu Shiqin sat on the sofa, the flame of his lighter flickering in the dim banquet hall. His eyes were half-lowered, his tone casual and indifferent. "She still hasn't figured out where she belongs."
Everyone burst into laughter.
Song Sui's heart died.
On a stormy night at a charity gala, she stood beneath the eaves, rain soaking her hair and the hem of her dress.
A Maybach rolled slowly through the rain and mist. Trembling, she stepped in front of it.
The window slowly rolled down, revealing half the man's profile in silhouette, his side view cast in deep shadows. Jiang Shiyu turned his head slightly to look at her.
Gathering all her courage, Song Sui asked, "Jiang Shiyu, will you marry me?"
Later, on a snowy night,
Xu Shiqin stood miserably outside a villa in Nancheng, his eyes red as he knocked on the door. Every moment apart from Song Sui filled him with regret.
When the door opened, he hurriedly lowered his head and pleaded, "Sui Sui, will you come back with me?"
Jiang Shiyu leaned against the wall, looking down at the man before him, who was nearly on his knees. He calmly straightened the cufflink that had been tugged loose. "Mr. Xu, she's now..."
"My wife."
The door closed. Song Sui looked up at him, her autumn eyes hazy. "Who was that?"
Jiang Shiyu answered casually, "A salesman."
He stepped closer and wrapped an arm around her waist, his gaze growing intense. Leaning close to her ear, he said, "Sui Sui, you sure are strong. You even pulled my cufflink off."
Song Sui pouted. "Couldn't you be a little gentler?"
Jiang Shiyu chuckled, his breath falling against her pale neck. He murmured, "Then next time, you can be on top..."
3.
Later, while tidying up the study, Song Sui found a dusty box tucked into a corner of the bookshelf.
Inside were countless train tickets for trips between the capital and Jiangyi. At the very bottom lay a love letter the boy had never sent.
She opened it. It was Jiang Shiyu, at seventeen, confessing his feelings for Song Sui, then fifteen.
It turned out that during her insecure, sensitive girlhood, someone had been carrying a careful, tender love for her for many, many years.
Reading Guide:
1. Highlight: The male lead is Jiang Shiyu!
2. Married first, fall in love later from the heroine's perspective; secret love turns into mutual love from the hero's perspective.
3. Both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending.
4. First version of the blurb posted on May 2, 2025. Screenshots have been saved as proof.
Theme: I'll wait for you, just as I wait for the wind
