A Jin

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Ren Chen is a prodigy investor, bright and upright, always conducting himself with restraint. He knows that in circles tangled up in competing interests, marriage is rarely a matter of personal choice, so he can hardly be bothered to waste time on romance.

Until he meets a down-on-her-luck girl so breathtakingly beautiful, with such clear, limpid eyes, that she lights up the moment he sees her.

At their first meeting, she clutches the hem of his coat and gazes at him so pitifully that anyone would feel for her as she calls his name: "Ren Chen."

In an instant, Ren Chen discovers what it feels like to have his heart softened.

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Ren Chen keeps her by his side, telling her he loves her and will protect her forever.

From being together out of necessity to falling completely in love, Yan Jin stays with him for eight years, until he appears in public with his fiancée.

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A few years later, a draft by an internationally renowned designer is accidentally leaked, and the designs for a pair of wedding rings attract widespread attention.

The woman's ring features a 9.16-carat pink diamond, the only one of its kind in the world. A mysterious tycoon bought it at auction years ago, and it has never been seen since. The man's ring is now on the hand of the head of the Ren Capital empire, but his wife is not wearing the matching ring.

Speculation runs wild.

Soon after, news breaks that Ren Chen's marriage is in trouble, and the whereabouts of the woman's ring become even more intriguing.

September 16 is Yan Jin's birthday. The rare pink diamond was a birthday gift Ren Chen gave her that year.

No one knows that the two characters A Jin are tattooed on the ring finger hidden beneath Ren Chen's wedding band.

Blurb posted on 2023.11.22, revised on 2024.3.2

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"Shen Mengzheng, you are not my muse. Let's call off the engagement."

They had shared a bed since childhood, growing up destined to become husband and wife, their lives steeped in each other's very blood. But the dazzling aura of being Mrs. Shen only made her feel suffocated.

To be free, Zhao Shuqing said every hurtful thing she could think of.

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Shen Mengzheng said, "Lovers can't be friends."

From then on, their names became forbidden to each other.

Years later, at a classmate's wedding.

The room brimmed with elegant clothes and glittering jewels, but their table was cold enough to freeze to the core.

A busybody egged them on: "The golden couple from back then, and now you're pretending not to know each other?"

Zhao Shuqing tipped her head back.

The liquor scorched her throat... like drinking down the poison she had brewed with her own hands all those years ago.

When she left, rain and snow came down together.

Cold rain, alcohol, and the twisting cramps of her period overwhelmed her. She curled up by the roadside, as wretched as an abandoned dog.

A black Maybach tore through the rain and screeched to a halt. The door flew open, and a man strode toward her, splashing through puddles.

His expensive coat fell over her head, wrapping around her soaked, shivering body.

"Zhao Shuqing..."

His Adam's apple bobbed violently. At last, he bowed in surrender and scooped her up in his arms.

In the warm, mist-filled car, he pressed a cup of brown sugar and ginger tea into her icy hands.

Zhao Shuqing stared at the taut line of his jaw, her nose stinging, but the words that came out were edged with ice:

"Mr. Shen, have you... lost your memory?"

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When he was stripped of his inheritance rights, Shen Mengzheng faced a barrage of cameras and merely smiled. "I have only taken off a suit that didn't fit. Is that really worth all this fuss?"

Later, the toy empire he founded, Queen's, swept across the globe, building dreams for billions of children. The financial press hailed him as "the most romantic man with ambition."

Under the spotlight, a reporter asked him the secret to his success.

The man looked straight into the camera, but his gaze seemed to pierce through time and space, returning to that stormy night. "She thought being Mrs. Shen was a golden cage, a pair of shackles, and pushed me away again and again..." A near-mad smile tugged at his lips. "So I tore down the cage and built an entire city of freedom in its place. I wanted her to be the wind blowing freely through the streets, the fire that could blaze across the plains!"

"Luckily... this time, I bet on the right thing."

Love is a bond between equals, not subservience.

If I cannot bear to confine you to a tiny space, then I will create a whole new world for you.

A world-class dancer, breathtaking and impossible to overlook × the refined paragon meticulously shaped by a century-old Hong Kong City dynasty

Defiant and clear-eyed vs. a romantic to the very end

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Theme: Souls that have resonated with each other never grow cold