A Detour in Spring

[Independent, clear-headed, energetic sweetheart x aloof, celibate, untouchable high-born beauty]

[Wen Yao x Jin Yu | Older man goes mad with love]

1.

One day after school, Wen Yao overhears a man taking a phone call outside the classroom building.

"I'm picking up a kid after school."

"She's not my kid. She's my ex-wife's younger sister."

"Of course not. She's still young, a second-year high school student, and very quiet. I only see her as a child."

The man's name is Jin Yu. Impeccably dressed in a suit, he is cool and restrained, as noble as moonlight between pine trees. The youngest person ever to take charge of the Haoli Group, he commands everyone's attention just by standing there.

Jin Yu is the man Wen Yao has secretly loved since childhood.

But when she was sixteen, he was matched with her older sister. Their marriage was an alliance between powerful families, and authoritative magazines hailed them as the business world's golden couple.

Wen Yao should, by rights, have called Jin Yu her brother-in-law.

She never once did.

But their good fortune didn't last. Less than a year after Wen Yao's older sister and Jin Yu married, they divorced. They had no children and parted on good terms.

Wen Yao sadly thought she would never see Jin Yu again in this lifetime.

Then, after a family upheaval and a twist of fate, she was sent to live with Jin Yu.

Jin Yu became her only legal guardian.

2.

Under the same roof, Jin Yu was cool and distant, but he always fulfilled his responsibilities as an elder, overseeing Wen Yao's studies and seeing to her daily needs. He never once crossed the line.

He always called her "kid" and never saw her as a woman.

Wen Yao decided to prove him wrong. On Jin Yu's birthday, she went to great lengths to dress herself up like an exquisite present and climbed into his bed.

But Jin Yu remained unmoved. Coldly and roughly, he threw her out of the room.

"You're not my type. From now on, I want you to give up any improper thoughts for good."

In that moment, Wen Yao's heart died of grief, and she finally buried her feelings.

After barely making it through high school, she planned to leave Jin Yu for good. But on the night of her graduation party, she got drunk and accidentally ended up in bed with him.

In the stuffy study, sweat glistened across Wen Yao's skin as the man breathed heavily beside her.

Wen Yao suddenly remembered her older sister, who had once complained that Jin Yu was indifferent to sex. They had been married for a year without ever sleeping together, and he was a bland, boring man.

Looking at the pink marks covering her body, Wen Yao thought, Jin Yu couldn't possibly be indifferent to sex.

In bed, he was insatiable, wild beyond belief. Beneath his restrained suit and shirt, he was a beast no one could handle.

But Wen Yao knew her place. Jin Yu didn't like her at all, and she had been the one to tempt him.

She didn't want him to feel any moral burden. Besides, she'd enjoyed herself too, so it wasn't a loss.

So Wen Yao ran off before Jin Yu woke up.

3.

Wen Yao was beautiful and graceful, and with her gentle nature and kind disposition, plenty of people pursued her after she started university.

One spring night, she met a senior student at a cafe, where he was in the middle of confessing his feelings for her.

At the worst possible moment, her phone started vibrating.

The person who interrupted the senior's confession was her former brother-in-law, Jin Yu.

Jin Yu sent her a picture and a text message.

The picture showed the study. Her coat was draped over the leather office chair, with a corner of white fabric peeking out beneath it, edged in alluring lace.

The man's message was brazen and blunt:

[Wen Yao, you left your panties at my place. Come get them.]

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