Why Didn't You Tell Me Your Lover Came from Such a Powerful Family?

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I have a lover. Back when we first got together, he had just debuted. Now he's a double-award-winning Best Actor and a top-tier star.

I love tormenting him:

For example, I won't wear his ring, and I'll tell him my fiance is waiting for me to have dinner.

For example, I never tell him about work, and whenever he asks, I tell him to shut up.

For example, when I was fighting my older brother for control of the company, I'd take my anger and my pent-up desire out on him from time to time.

He never gets angry. In fact, he puts in plenty of effort.

Few words, great in bed.

I like him, but this relationship was never going to last.

When I broke up with him, I was brutally clear.

Then one day, things went badly at work.

I nearly got kicked out of the company.

When I was wandering the streets in a daze, he actually spent all night looking for me.

I smacked away the hand he reached out to touch my face.

But then he handed me a contract.

It was raining outside, so I got in the car to read it.

It was the project I'd failed to land, and the client's signature was on it.

The hurried handwriting below it was familiar. It was his name.

I stared into his eyes, which were full of tenderness. "Why didn't you tell me before that your family was so rich?"

If you'd told me earlier, how could I have broken up with you?

[The main story is told in third person]

[Showbiz mad-dog fiction]

[The female lead is not bankrupt. She's been rich all along]

The next book is tentatively titled The Broken Jade Branch. Here's the blurb:

"Brother, you know I never have much patience."

In a secluded corner of the garden, the young woman smiled with gentle charm. The young man beside her was dressed in deep black, his expression somber.

Before she could speak again, Xie Huaiqian brought his blade down. The blood splashing onto his neck was still warm.

Satisfied, she turned her gaze away, no longer looking at the face she'd seen day and night. She walked over the bloodstains without a care, only looking back when she was about to cross the threshold.

"You'll take care of this for me, won't you?"

"Brother."

Xie Huaiqian stood motionless, as if he hadn't heard her at all, his feelings never showing.

But Xie Lingyi knew that her elder brother, so self-restrained and proper, so noble and refined, had been destined to become her devoted servant from the very moment he opened his eyes.

A ruthless, gentle blade x a devoted servant who bends for love

-No blood relation

-No romantic development while their familial relationship remains intact

Theme: Becoming a better version of yourself