Abandonment Effect
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On the surface: refined, cold-blooded business magnate × pampered, elegant heiress
In reality: devoted and self-sacrificing, hiding his feelings × possessive to the extreme, scheming and seductive
Tan Xu × Fu Lu
Mutual pining | Faux siblings | Long-planned schemes | Reunion after years apart
SC, one-on-one, happy ending
“I heard he married her after she fell on hard times, just to get revenge.”
Not at all.
“You mean my brother? Yeah. I couldn’t think of any other way to keep him by my side, so I decided to marry him.”
The truth was, even back when Fu Lu was the pampered jewel of the Fu family and he was just a stray dog, she wanted to lock him up and never let him go anywhere.
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Fu Lu’s first encounter with Tan Xu after returning to the country was at her father’s funeral.
Everyone in Hunanshi knew how dearly Fu Chong doted on his daughter. Naturally, his fortune would go to her, which also meant that whoever married her would gain wealth and power with ease.
Fu Lu had a cool, aloof beauty, and the vivid red at the corners of her eyes made her look even more pitiful against her jade-white complexion.
Too bad she was blind.
Amid the sudden whispers, she turned around and looked straight into his calm eyes.
Tan Xu became the center of attention the moment he appeared.
Fu Lu softly called out, “Brother.”
That’s right. Tan Xu, now the business magnate who could command the winds and rain in Hunanshi, had a past no one dared to mention.
After his father, once a subordinate of Fu Chong, died, Tan Xu was taken in by the Fu family.
He endured endless humiliation in the Fu household and was even thrown out.
He must have hated Fu Chong’s arrogant, spoiled daughter with all his heart.
Now Fu Chong was dead, and Fu Lu was blind. Given Tan Xu’s methods, her fate was bound to be miserable.
That was right. He hated her with all his heart.
He hated that Fu Lu had vanished without a trace for years. He hated that there were other men by her side. He hated that she wouldn’t look at him, smile at him, or love him...
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With the family business falling apart and her fiance cheating on her, Fu Lu was at her most helpless and lost when Tan Xu appeared.
“Marry me, and I’ll help you save the Fu family.”
How cunning.
The arrogant bird on the branch became a canary in the Tan household.
Her sightless eyes were red from crying. She smashed a vase and refused to let Tan Xu near her, then turned her melodious voice into a hoarse cry: “Tan Xu, you’re bullying me.”
Tan Xu’s heart was breaking.
But Fu Lu was putting on an act.
It was all part of a long-planned seduction, a revenge against the man who always insisted on treating himself as her older brother, and a difficult journey Fu Lu was determined to win.
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On yet another damp night, Tan Xu got drunk and pinned the person he had longed for beneath him, but he still couldn’t bring himself to touch her.
She hated him. He had no right to touch her...
Fu Lu naturally had no idea what was going through his mind. She slipped her icy fingertips beneath the hem of his rumpled shirt, thinking only:
Ten years. She had waited long enough. Tan Xu could hold back if he wanted, but she didn’t want to anymore. She was going to take advantage of him, so that he could only ever belong to her for the rest of his life...
Just then, a tear fell from above. Startled, Fu Lu hastily pulled her hand back.
Just as no one would believe that hard, ruthless Tan Xu would cry from jealousy,
no one would believe that the arrogant Miss Fu would now tilt her head up, kiss away his tears, and soothe him:
“What’s wrong? Who made you sad, big brother?”
[Reading Guide]
1. The male lead was raised by the heroine’s family, but they were never registered as family and are not blood relatives.
2. The heroine’s blindness is temporary. She’ll recover later.
Theme: Hold on to the beautiful things in life
