The Great Beauty Remarries a Hong Kong Tycoon [1990s]

Shen Lin came to Xiangjiang from the mainland to make a living. There, she ran into Chen Xun, a childhood friend. The two fell for each other and soon married after she became pregnant.

But misfortune struck. Chen Xun fell off a cliff while working and plunged into a bottomless abyss. There was no chance he had survived.

After the accident, his boss, Zhou Lanshan, personally took care of the arrangements for his subordinate and diligently looked after his family, including his beautiful young widow.

Even the financial reporters at Xiangjiang's newspapers privately wondered when the coldhearted business tycoon Zhou Lanshan had become so kind and warmhearted.

That is, until a paparazzo snapped Zhou Lanshan getting most of his shoulder soaked as he carefully shielded Shen Lin in his arms.

When the lovely face beneath the umbrella came into view, everyone understood. No wonder.

Zhou Lanshan's businesses spanned every sector in Xiangjiang, and he barely remembered Chen Xun, a manager at one of his small real estate companies.

Then one day, he unexpectedly learned that his subordinate's new wife was the one he had loved from afar as a young man.

He had meant to let her go, but the more he thought about her, the more he found himself paying attention to her. He even often changed into worn-out clothes and pretended to be a down-on-his-luck young man, spending half the day at Shen Lin's little dessert shop.

Chen Xun fell off a cliff and vanished without a trace. Zhou Lanshan was overjoyed!

With designer clothes, jewelry, luxury cars, and villas, the down-on-his-luck young man transformed into a domineering CEO who spent lavishly. Before long, he had won the beauty's heart.

His beloved even bore him a son, and Zhou Lanshan spoiled mother and child rotten.

When the two-year period for Chen Xun's disappearance ended, Zhou Lanshan eagerly hired the best lawyers in all of Xiangjiang to appeal for his marriage to be declared invalid. He even bought a diamond ring worth hundreds of millions, waiting for the chance to truly make the beauty his.

On the first day after the three-month public notice declaring Chen Xun missing, Chen Xun returned, now the true young master of a wealthy Xiangjiang family.

Zhou Lanshan was furious.

"I told you not to give up looking for him, and you actually found him?"

His subordinate: "..."

Zhou Lanshan scowled. "If he disappeared once, he can disappear a second time."

"You can't do that, boss. He's a young master of a wealthy family now."

Zhou Lanshan went mad. "Then we'll wage a business war. I'll make his whole family dirt poor!"

Shen Lin was caught between two sides. Back then, she had been a helpless young widow, newly pregnant, when Zhou Lanshan, handsome and throwing money around, pursued her. She steeled herself: The child can't grow up without a father. I need someone to take on the role, and it'll be him.

In two years, Zhou Lanshan had done everything he promised, and she became a wealthy lady admired by everyone in Xiangjiang.

If Chen Xun had returned as the same poor young man he once was, perhaps she could have gone on living this way.

But now both men were wealthy in their own right. Should she choose her child's biological father, or the one who was better in bed...?

Zhou Lanshan sobbed: "..."

Shen Lin: "Um... there's something I don't know if I should tell you. The child really isn't yours..."

Zhou Lanshan: "... I know. I'm doing this willingly."

Theme: Love makes life more fulfilling