Fleeing from a Marriage

Original titles: By Your Full Name, Trapped in Marriage

◎ Rekindled love | Reunion after years apart | Rental-apartment romance

A con-artist heroine x a bad boy; two rich people pretending to be poor

(Her side)

Xun Li's name goes viral among the socialites overnight. She is the only daughter of renowned writer Xun Tianqi and contemporary painter Song Zhiya, and her groom publicly calls off their wedding at the ceremony.

A guest who attended the wedding reveals that a major blunder happened that day: the opening montage showed a video of the bride passionately kissing another man. Tsk, tsk~

The Xun and He families are humiliated, and groom He Yiran storms out on the spot.

They thought the incident would end the relationship between the two families.

Instead, He Yiran holds a lavish wedding in Hangcheng, and Xun Li shows up openly to celebrate.

During the banquet, a familiar face comes over to stir up trouble. "Isn't that the groom's ex? Why are you here alone? Where's the man in your video?"

Everyone eagerly joins in on the gossip, passing around the video's steamy highlights.

"That video looks like it was filmed in a hotel. Do you think he's in that line of work?"

The room in the video is simply furnished. The male lead has broad shoulders and a slim waist, and looks ridiculously handsome even in an old man's undershirt. The chemistry between him and Xun Li as they kiss is electric.

He radiates a wild, unrestrained energy that nobody in their circle possesses.

Xun Li neither confirms nor denies it, leaving them to speculate.

"I'm a male model?" A man's voice rings out from the crowd. Zhou Yangwang appears in a black tailcoat, his presence commanding.

Xun Li thinks, What a coincidence. Could Zhou Yangwang be the bride's ex? Did he mooch off the richest man's daughter?

The next second, the man who had just provoked her starts apologizing profusely. "So it's Young Master Zhou! No wonder Miss Xun made a mistake..."

Xun Li is stunned. The man who used to pretend to be completely broke in front of her, constantly whining, "Honey, I'm hungry," turns out to be the son of Zhou Dong'an, the richest man in the country.

(His side)

Just when their relationship had grown most passionate and tender, Tao Li suddenly disappeared without a word.

He saw her again in the news. She had become the beloved heiress of the Xun family, whose parents were highly respected veterans of the cultural world. At her side was a handsome young writer, her fiance.

Con artist: that was the only thing he thought of her.

When she first changed her name and came to Hangcheng, she told him he was the first friend she'd made in the city and the only person she could rely on. Those two sentences had stirred his sympathy.

After twenty-four years of being single, the first time he'd ever lost sleep over someone's words was because she'd said, "Zhou Yangwang, if you can't afford a place in Hangcheng, how am I supposed to marry you?"

The next day, so anxious that he couldn't sit still, he called his older sister and asked, "If I admit I was wrong and go home to apologize, do you think Dad would forgive me and buy me a place in Hangcheng?"

When they met again, she was still radiant and captivating, sitting among the crowd and standing out even more than his sister in her wedding dress.

But this beautiful woman had a heart as poisonous as a snake's. She immediately slandered him by saying he was a male escort. Unforgivable!

The wedding begins. The lights go out, and silence falls all around them, broken only by the wedding music and the emcee's opening remarks.

Zhou Yangwang forcefully drags Xun Li into the dressing room. His fingers dig into her chin as he growls, "Xun Li, am I really so embarrassing to you?"

Xun Li gazes at him blankly and gives a light laugh. "Does it matter if you're embarrassing or not? I'm in your hands either way, aren't I?"

Without changing expression, the man grips her chin and kisses her. Inwardly, he can't help mocking himself: between them, he has always been the one she holds firmly in her grasp.

He is nothing but a plaything for a rich young lady passing the time.

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The original title refers to how he used to call her Little Chestnut, but after they reunite, he always calls her "Xun Li" in a harsh voice and accuses her of being a liar.

The title By Your Full Name was set on 2023.11.3, then changed to Trapped in Marriage on 2025.5.27. The blurb was revised on 2024.7.13, and screenshots have been saved as proof. It will be revised again before the novel begins.

Theme: Only by treating others sincerely can you gain their genuine affection