There's No Escape

Steal His Love # The Ex-Chases-His-Wife-to-the-Crematorium Trope # Next up: The Thorn Rose, a 50,000-word novella

The Qin and Song families formed an alliance through marriage. Among all the eligible young men in the Song family, Qin Yuqian chose the second son, Song, whose temperament was the gentlest and manners the most courteous. The two got along harmoniously, becoming a celebrated couple among the upper class.

One day, at a Song family banquet, Qin Yuqian couldn't hold her liquor and left early. She went alone to rest in a guest room. As she opened the door, she saw a man standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, a cigarette between his fingers, his shirt completely unbuttoned. The dim yellow light traced the sharply defined contours of his waist and abdomen.

He was the eldest son of the Song family, Song Tingchen, and the person in control of Song Group: a refined, aloof, ascetic man, as unattainable as a god.

Qin Yuqian instinctively tried to flee, but he stopped her at the door. A dangerous look roiled in Song Tingchen's eyes as he hooked one arm around her waist and brushed her lips with the other hand. "You didn't run away the last time I kissed you."

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When they met again later, Qin Yuqian was singing a love song with her fiance in a high-end private club. Her phone rang, so she left the private room to answer it, only for someone to seize her wrist and pull her into the room next door.

The man pinned her against the floor-to-ceiling window. His cool, pale fingertips touched her chest as he asked in a bewitching voice, "Has he ever seen this mole?"

"Has he ever kissed it?"

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Later still, unable to bear his relentless pursuit, Qin Yuqian used an excuse to leave for a while.

That day, she and her fiance had arranged to taste the dishes for their wedding banquet, but he waited a long time and Qin Yuqian never showed up.

At that moment, in a luxurious villa, Song Tingchen gripped her waist and wantonly marked the black mole. Waves surged in the man's deep eyes as he brushed her ear and asked, "Has he ever seen you all flushed like this?"

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Few people knew that Qin Yuqian and Song Tingchen had once shared a brief relationship. In those days of unrestrained abandon, they had each other all to themselves.

Qin Yuqian was the one who ended things. He had let her go once, but there would be no second time.

Aloof and ascetic on the outside, scheming and ruthless underneath, a powerful figure in Hong Kong's wealthy circles vs. gorgeous and delicate on the outside, yet bold in love and hate, a rich heiress.

Rekindled love after a breakup / Stealing his love / Older brother takes his younger brother's wife

Content warning:

Extremely, extremely, extremely melodramatic. None of the characters are perfect, so please proceed with caution if that's not your thing.

Theme: Strive to realize your own worth.