Rusting [Unrequited Love from a Man]

[After Childhood Sweethearts Divorce]

Lu Zhengnian and Sheng Zhi grew up together. On the eve of the college entrance exams, Sheng Zhi left without saying goodbye. Lu Zhengnian kept looking for her. For ten whole years. He heard she'd gotten married and had a lovely daughter.

His friend tried to talk him out of it: "Are you planning to wait another ten years?"

After Sheng Zhi fell out with Yan Shuo, she happened to run into Lu Zhengnian one night. Out of politeness, Sheng Zhi asked, "How are you planning to get home? I drove here, as it happens."

His friend knew she was just being courteous and was already preparing to say goodbye when Lu Zhengnian replied slowly, "I wouldn't want to trouble you." In the end, he still got into Sheng Zhi's car.

Everyone knew Lu Zhengnian had a secret crush on Sheng Zhi. After all these years apart, his feelings were plain to see. Sheng Zhi brought her daughter, Suisui, along and firmly turned him down.

When he fell ill abroad, he only vaguely sensed that she was there.

Later, amid a torrential downpour, his fever wouldn't break. He clutched her hand and murmured again and again, "Sheng Zhi. Please take pity on me."

Sheng Zhi's heart softened. She agreed after all.

**

After her brother-in-law passed away, Sheng Zhi returned from abroad with her sister's daughter, ready to end things with Yan Shuo once and for all. Just then, Lu Zhengnian confessed his feelings to her.

She rejected him many times, but finally relented: "Let's give it a try."

But Lu Zhengnian was always gentle with others. Whenever she said she was taking Suisui to see Suisui's father, he always fell silent. Even after they got together, when he was occasionally sick and delirious, he'd still murmur, "Please take pity on me."

Until one parent-teacher meeting, when Yan Shuo foolishly showed up to steal her away. Lu Zhengnian learned what had happened and helped stop him. Then he lowered his head.

"I'll treat Suisui as my own daughter. Don't..."

He said hoarsely, "Don't go looking for him."

"..."

Suisui wasn't the child of Sheng Zhi and Yan Shuo. She was the daughter of Sheng Zhi's sister and her late brother-in-law.

Sheng Zhi had always thought he knew.

Angst for the male lead. Happy ending.

Original title: Sinking

-- Upcoming: Embracing the Jade (original title: Delusions) --

After Cheng Bi broke up with her first love, she married her current husband. Their happiness didn't last long. In a car accident, Cheng Bi's husband died, and the shock caused her memories to regress to six years earlier.

Her three-year-old daughter told her she was already married.

Her husband's surname was Ying, and he was a very, very good man.

After the accident, she was hospitalized, but her husband never came to visit. Cheng Bi felt disappointed and confused.

Then, on the night she was discharged, she ran into an old friend. The man beside her looked at her with shock and concern, as if he'd only just learned she was there.

Sheng Zhi remembered him. Ying Yun, her first boyfriend. Gentle and dependable. Most importantly, he had the same surname, Ying. The nurse had even asked him to sign the family member section.

Cheng Bi had no doubts and called him, "Honey."

Ying Yun was married to her and treated their daughter well. Everything was just as Sheng Zhi remembered.

But when she brought up things that came back to her as her memories slowly recovered, his reactions were never quite enthusiastic enough. Sometimes, he would fall silent and get up.

Cheng Bi had seen many couples break up after graduation. She asked him, "Do you regret marrying me?"

Ying Yun's throat tightened. How could he regret marrying her? He could only dream of marrying her.

**

When he heard Cheng Bi was getting married, Ying Yun flew for more than ten hours to attend the wedding. But in the end, he never stepped inside. In the middle of the night, he often dreamed that it was his wedding to Cheng Bi, and that he was the one marrying her.

He never imagined that after a car accident, Cheng Bi would mistake him for her dead husband.

From then on, through every season and year, he kept the jade and stole another man's name, clinging to a delusion that only he knew about. He willingly pretended to be the lover buried deep underground, yet forever in her heart.

One-on-one romance.

The male lead pretends to be the heroine's dead husband and takes care of her and her daughter.

The truth will come out in the end. There will be a groveling arc, with the male lead suffering.

Happy ending.

Original title: Delusions. The blurb has been revised.

Theme: Misunderstandings cannot disturb love