Lovers' Ruins

Financier Tycoon x Archaeologist

Divorce First, Love Later / Male Rivals Battling for Her / Heavy Male Suffering

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Pei Yanqing forced his way into a marriage.

Back then, Wen Yu had just lost her brother. Her psychiatrist listed a whole host of mental disorders, including severe avoidant attachment. Her symptoms included never admitting what she truly wanted and claiming she did not want something whenever she could not have it.

He urged Pei Yanqing to take things slowly.

Pei Yanqing cared for Wen Yu like she was an endangered animal, indulging her in everything.

One night, she got drunk and kissed him of her own accord for the first time.

Pei Yanqing let himself sink into her heady fragrance until, in a pause between kisses, Wen Yu said, "Brother, don't go."

She thought she was kissing Wen Shuran.

At last, Pei Yanqing understood that a dead white moonlight could never be defeated. Still, he wanted to keep their marriage going.

Even when he accidentally discovered that she was going to nightclubs, Pei Yanqing only suppressed the violence boiling inside him. He could not even bring himself to confront her directly. With difficulty, he said, "...Wen Yu, don't bring him home. That's my only request."

Pei Yanqing fulfilled every desire in her heart, the ones she voiced and the ones she did not.

He succeeded in becoming her medicine.

In the second year of their marriage, Wen Yu recovered.

As the largest shareholder, she signed a wagering agreement worth twenty billion, handed the Pei Group over to someone else, and then divorced Pei Yanqing.

The company was on the verge of collapse.

Pei Yanqing lost everything. He did not care about the twenty billion. He only knelt and begged her not to leave.

Wen Yu did not look back.

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Six years after the divorce, he had become the coldhearted Mr. Pei.

Wen Yu was no longer a fledgling in need of protection. For the Zhou Dynasty artifacts buried beneath Wanjin City, the city's biggest investment project, she went head-to-head with him.

There was an eyesore of a man by her side now.

A man who shared her ideals.

Her dead white moonlight was gone, and a new cinnabar mole had appeared.

Wen Yu only flirted with Pei Yanqing when she was putting on a show for that man.

Behind one-way glass, inside a private elevator,

Pei Yanqing brushed her cheek and begged for a kiss, as if it were a handout. "Do you like seeing me like this?"

"You go wild with joy over one word from me, then plunge into despair over the next. You like playing with me this way, don't you?"

He said, "I'll play along."

No matter how many people passed by her side, he would play along until she had her fill.

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"The only thing I cannot endure is that everything can be endured." - Rimbaud

[Reading Guide] [Please read every point!]

1. Happy ending. No remarriage, no children. This is not a story about a wife-chasing crematorium. The male lead is a humble, devoted puppy from beginning to end. There are reasons behind the forced marriage, so it does not count as coercive possession.

2. The female lead will get together with the second male lead for a while, but they will break up later. They have normal intimate moments while dating. Please read with caution if this bothers you.

3. The male lead and the other male characters are all virgins, including the deceased white moonlight brother (they are not related by blood and are not registered in the same household). Five male characters have romantic storylines with the female lead, many of them one-sided. The female lead's first time is not with the male lead, so she is not a virgin, while he is.

4. Timeline: Volume One opens with their reunion; Volume Two looks back at the two wealthy families' marriage alliance eight years earlier.

5. Side couple: Zhuang Wei x Chen Yin. They do not get much page time, probably only a few thousand words in the whole novel, but the pairing can be controversial, so I am clarifying it here. The woman is bisexual and likes a straight woman. There is a very slight kissing scene. The author absolutely does not mean to suggest that lesbian relationships always lose to male-female relationships. This particular straight woman simply cannot be turned.

6. The female lead is not a villainess! She has family-of-origin issues and severe avoidant attachment during her marriage. After recovering, she is naturally a heartbreaker and a flirt, but she is not bad at heart.

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* Female lead is not a virgin, male lead is / female CEO / male substitute / male suffering / older-sister-and-puppy dynamic / ages 18 and 30

1

On the twelfth anniversary of Xu Zhibai's death, the white cat he left behind finally died, too.

Holding Xiao Bai's ashes, Guan Jin remembered the first time she had met Xu Zhibai.

In 2012, on a summer night, torrential rain poured down as thunder boomed and fierce winds seemed ready to tear everything apart. The world was dark and chaotic, as if the prophecy of the apocalypse were about to come true.

Inside the Maybach, all was quiet.

In the back seat, she played Angry Birds on her BlackBerry. After a deafening crash, the car suddenly slammed on the brakes. She looked up. The driver hurriedly turned around. "Miss, are you all right?"

She shook her head and looked through the windshield wipers. A boy in a worn short-sleeved school uniform was curled up not far away. His elbow seemed to be broken, and blood ran from it, staining the rainwater beneath him red.

"Oh, this idiot ran right into the car! Doesn't he have eyes? I'll make him pay..." The driver grabbed an umbrella and rushed out. Then he saw the broken headlight and grew even angrier. He seized the boy by the collar and yanked him upright.

"Do you know what kind of car this is? You couldn't pay for one headlight in your entire life! I'm telling you, don't even think about running. Wait here for the traffic police!"

Through the furious shouting, Guan Jin finally saw what the boy was holding.

A little kitten that had just narrowly escaped death, terrified and filthy, was desperately burying its head in his chest.

Xu Zhibai could barely open his eyes in the downpour. He silently endured the scolding as he was shoved and staggered a few steps before falling onto the road. His lips were pressed stubbornly into a thin line. No matter how much his arm hurt, he held the kitten tightly.

On an impulse, Guan Jin got out with an umbrella and walked up to him. "Come with me. There's a doctor at home."

Xu Zhibai stared at her for a moment, then gave a slight shake of his head.

Guan Jin smiled. "All right, then pay me thirty thousand."

As she expected, the astronomical sum stunned Xu Zhibai. He scrambled to his feet. "I-I'll go with you."

Guan Jin would regret it countless times afterward. If only she had not seen that cat. She would never have developed feelings for Xu Zhibai, and he would not have died at eighteen.

2

As a spoiled rich kid who never studied, Lu Chiyang had an extreme phobia of women. When he came into contact with one, he suffered palpitations, suffocation, and relentless vomiting.

One day, he had to live with a woman who was a full twelve years older than him.

She looked at him strangely, as if she were looking through him at someone else.

Theme: Self-redemption and a well-rounded personality.