You Kissed Me First

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Jian Huanyan was a handful from the time she was little.

There wasn't a kid for miles around who could get into more trouble than she could. The two elders of the Jian family couldn't control her and had no idea what to do.

That is, until new neighbors moved in next door.

The usually fearless Jian Huanyan, who was always climbing and dashing around, finally met her match: Chi Mu, the neighbor auntie's son.

Jian Huanyan feared nothing under heaven, except him.

When she was seventeen, Jian Huanyan came home full of joy and knocked on the neighbors' door.

When it opened, she saw Chi Mu, just as she'd hoped.

Before Jian Huanyan could ask any of the many questions she'd been holding inside, Chi Mu coldly said,

"I'm leaving."

Jian Huanyan froze on the spot.

Chi Mu said in a low voice, "Don't come looking for me again."

Her joy shattered. Choking back tears, she asked, "W-why?"

Chi Mu fell silent, and Jian Huanyan felt a little wronged.

She'd rushed all the way back through the rain.

She'd hurried so she could see him as soon as possible, and now Chi Mu was saying he was leaving.

He was telling her never to look for him again.

Jian Huanyan broke down that day. Chi Mu left that day too, disappearing from her life for good.

Whenever she thought back to that day, Jian Huanyan remembered more than Chi Mu's icy words.

She remembered kissing him.

Back then, she naively thought that if she loved Chi Mu and got him to love her too, he wouldn't leave.

But Chi Mu didn't love her.

Years later, when they met again, he held her tight in his arms.

Chi Mu rasped, "Jian Huanyan, you were the one who kissed me first."

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Pei Guanyi didn't understand love.

He had no need for something as elusive as love.

His life's path had been laid out from the moment he was born, including the fact that he would marry Xu Qingyin.

To him, Xu Qingyin was just a small detour in his perfect life.

Xu Qingyin's presence didn't affect his life in the slightest, and he didn't mind having someone new by his side.

That was what he thought at first.

He just liked the way Xu Qingyin looked when she cried.

When they were together, her lovely dark eyes always clearly reflected his face, letting him see how completely he lost control. He was surprised by this unrestrained side of himself, yet he was utterly lost in it.

He didn't like Xu Qingyin getting too close to other men, and he couldn't stand seeing her smile so happily at them.

But that was Xu Qingyin's freedom. He had no right to interfere, nor could he force his way in.

Their contractual marriage ended with his complete collapse and Xu Qingyin walking away unscathed.

He loved Xu Qingyin.

Xu Qingyin didn't love him.

Theme: Love the right person