Stealing someone else's partner | The wife-chasing crematorium | Six-year age gap | Male lead is a virgin
1.
At nineteen, Lin Qingru first met Xie Huaishen in New York.
At the time, he was an investor from Hong Kong's elite circles, a force to be reckoned with on Wall Street: cool, refined, and ruthless.
She, meanwhile, was just a poor student on a meager scholarship, working two jobs and still unable to cover her living expenses.
But fortunately, she had her beauty. Lin Qingru thought it was only fair to trade her young body for a better life.
2.
But there was nothing innocent about their relationship.
Eventually, Lin Qingru graduated and returned to China without hesitation, to work, fall in love, and get engaged, hoping to sever all ties with that absurd past.
As her wedding approached, she went with her boyfriend to attend a family banquet at his ancestral home.
Pointing to the man seated in the middle of the main table, her boyfriend dared not even say his name. He introduced him respectfully: "This is my Ninth Uncle, the head of the Xie family."
Lin Qingru bent at the waist and greeted him in a soft voice along with her boyfriend: "Ninth Uncle." When she looked up, she met a pair of eyes she knew all too well, filled with a possessive intensity.
3.
After the family banquet that day, her boyfriend called Lin Qingru's name, but couldn't find her anywhere.
Meanwhile, in the study on the second floor of the ancestral home, the fair-skinned woman was pinned against the door, her skirt soaked through beneath her.
The man's grip was brutal. Unable to push him away, she gasped, "Ninth Uncle..."
Xie Huaishen only pressed into her harder. Between movements, he ground his fingertip over her bright red lips, his voice low and tantalizing.
"Baby, you didn't call me that when we were in New York."
Blurb written on 2026.3.1
Theme: Independence and self-reliance
