A Sweet Aftertaste [Rekindled Love]

Blurb:

[Reunion After a Long Separation / Long-Standing Scheme / Marriage Before Love / Rekindled Romance]

1.

Gan Tang, the youngest daughter of the Gan family, was famous in Yucheng for her beauty and impeccable style.

After Gan Tang dumped her fiance, her family put her marriage back on the agenda.

One day, her father called her into his study, saying he wanted her to meet the man in advance.

She walked in and saw a man sitting to one side.

He noticed the movement by the door and looked up, his gaze cool and distant, his presence imposing.

Qin Yihuai's eyes were unfathomable. He stood to face her, a familiar smile spreading across his face. "Miss Gan, long time no see."

Three years earlier, he'd said much the same thing.

When Qin Yihuai returned from a business trip, he caught the girl who ran to him and leaped into his arms, wrapping her legs around his waist. Darkness lingered in his eyes, though he smiled. "It's been so long. Did you miss me?"

The girl had playfully wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered in his ear, a stark contrast to the shock on her face now.

2.

In Yucheng's circle of wealthy second-generation heirs, everyone tacitly agreed not to mention the past between Qin Yihuai and Gan Tang.

But who didn't know that three years ago, Qin Yihuai had stolen her away from her first love? He took advantage of a fight between Gan Tang and her first love, sweet-talked the just-turned-twenty-year-old into dating him, and made her his girlfriend.

What Qin Yihuai did was underhanded, but everyone in their circle knew how calculating and capable he was. Hardly anyone dared criticize him.

Their happiness didn't last. Barely a year later, they broke up, and the breakup was devastating.

After that, they went their separate ways and both left Yucheng.

He was twenty-nine that year, and she was twenty-one.

Over the next three years, they returned one after another, and everyone made a point of keeping them apart.

No one expected them to marry outright for the sake of their families' interests.

After the wedding, their feelings kept growing. The events of three years ago came back to the surface, and shortly afterward, her first love returned to Yucheng.

The night Gan Tang went to see a musical, a torrential rainstorm was raging outside.

The theater suddenly lost power, and the crowd dispersed.

In the darkness, Gan Tang and her first love talked about the past. A flash of lightning illuminated a solitary figure in the distance.

Her gaze shifted toward him, and her heart gave a violent thump.

Qin Yihuai snuffed out the small flame flickering at his fingertips. His gaze dark, he said with infinite patience:

"Tangtang, come here."

3.

Qin Yihuai considered himself a decent man. The only two times he took advantage of her vulnerability were for her sake.

The first time, he became her boyfriend.

The second time, he became her husband.

A sweet-and-sour romance, 20% angst, 80% sweetness.

[Gentle, sunny girl x Hypocritical gentleman | Refined scoundrel]

✺ A broadly appealing comfort read. Enter at your own risk.

Reader's guide | Content warnings:

1. The heroine grows over the course of the story. She's very, very rich and will never go bankrupt. She makes a few little mistakes that any man in the world might make. (Don't yell at her, please. Thank you.)

2. The hero has only ever had the heroine as an ex-girlfriend, and he's strong-willed. More love rivals will appear later.

3. A broadly appealing story, with an idealized wealthy-family setting. The piano parts are nonsense, so don't read if that's not for you.

4. Both leads are virgins. Eight-year age gap.

Theme: All that has happened is merely the prelude.