Delayed Rain

Coming Soon: Cherry Stain

You are snow in the sky, and I am mud on the ground. I could spend my whole life reaching for you, and never touch you.

Mutual substitutes / melodrama / falling hard / winning back the wife after a fiery breakup

1.

Yu Jinzhao is a rising star in the entertainment industry, with a bright future ahead of her. Many people cannot understand why she would risk ruining her career just to become entangled with Pei Sukong.

According to insiders, the glittering excesses of high society have dazzled Yu Jinzhao.

So she dreams of marrying into a wealthy family and rising to the top overnight.

Yu Jinzhao never responds to these rumors. It is true that she has ulterior motives for approaching Pei Sukong.

It took considerable effort to chase away the women surrounding Pei Sukong, but that was nothing compared to the difficulty of winning him over.

Pei Sukong has seen plenty of women with beautiful faces and figures. Fortunately, Yu Jinzhao has something that sets her apart from the rest.

Her features bear a striking resemblance to the one exception to Pei Sukong's cold-blooded nature.

So Yu Jinzhao changes her style of dress and does her best to imitate every smile and gesture of the woman he loves.

"Do you know the phrase 'trying to imitate Xi Shi, only to make a fool of yourself,' Miss Yu?" Pei Sukong's smile faded from his eyes, leaving behind nothing but icy coldness.

Yu Jinzhao nods. "I'm an actress. If I don't look like her, you can correct me. I'll change anything."

In the end, Yu Jinzhao never made it to the position of Pei Sukong's official girlfriend. She barely managed to become his mistress.

The kind who signs a contract in black and white.

2.

Yu Jinzhao takes their arrangement seriously and does her duty.

No matter how busy she is, she always shows up on time. Even when one of Pei Sukong's rumored lovers comes to provoke her, she can simply smile and let it pass.

She lives without a shred of dignity, as if she cannot survive without Pei Sukong.

Pei Sukong, however, loathes how spineless she is.

"Yu Jinzhao, you can't live without me?"

"That's right." Yu Jinzhao smiles at him. "I'll die."

"No one's stopping you." Pei Sukong's eyelid twitches. He reaches out to cover her eyes, now misty with tears, and says irritably, "There's too much desire in your eyes. It's like you're looking at someone else through me."

As it turns out, Pei Sukong is right. The paparazzi reveal that Yu Jinzhao's childhood sweetheart, who died, looks exactly like him.

3.

When the truth about their mutual substitution comes out, Yu Jinzhao calmly chooses to end their contract without a moment's hesitation.

"I'm sorry. I'll transfer the penalty fee to your account."

"Breach the contract? It's just a piece of paper with ink on it. Between you and me, unless I say it's over, it isn't over." Pei Sukong's pale lips part. His voice has lost its usual ruthlessness. The cigarette between his fingers burns his skin, but he feels no pain. "You went to all that trouble to cut ties with me. Are you so sure the next man you find will look more like him than I do?"

[Power, wealth, status: I can give them all up, but not you.

You are the blood pumped by the aorta, an addictive drug implanted in my organs.

From beginning to end, my desire for you has been insatiable.]

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Cold-blooded corporate tycoon (CEO) × beautiful black-hearted actress

1v1, no blood relation

Coming Soon: melodrama / running away while pregnant / rekindled romance after a breakup

1.

When Jiang Hao is released from prison, she has just turned twenty-six. Other than a scar on her stomach, she has nothing.

Everyone calls her a murderer and a liar. Jiang Hao never argues. She has never felt ashamed of being imprisoned.

In this life, there is only one person she feels guilty about and has lied to.

2.

She sees Chen Yuqing again at his engagement party.

Pure white roses cover the entire venue, and Jiang Hao stands flustered in a corner.

"You never had feelings for me? Not even once?"

Faced with Chen Yuqing's unrelenting accusations, the scar on Jiang Hao's stomach hurts terribly. She does not want to repeat the past and make Chen's wounds harder to heal.

She says, "I wish you and Miss Lin a long and happy marriage, and may you soon have a child."

The well wishes reach Chen Yuqing's ears and sound especially grating.

Six years later, the skin hunger that makes him crave hugs and caresses flares up the second he sees Jiang Hao.

3.

Getting Jiang Hao back as his "living cure" takes no effort at all. All he has to do is throw money at her.

After all, someone fresh out of prison with only a middle-school education will find it hard to refuse a high-paying job that offers quick money.

Most importantly, Jiang Hao badly needs money. Her sickly young niece's operation will cost a fortune.

So this time, Jiang Hao is a very well-behaved cure. But Chen Yuqing is unhappy: when forced to choose between him and her niece, Jiang Hao chooses her niece.

Used to being the first choice and the one in control, Chen Yuqing refuses to let Jiang Hao defy him. He secretly has her niece sent away.

An hour later, the child is wheeled into the operating room.

That day, Chen Yuqing's very bones are shattered and remade.

"Chen Yuqing, she's your daughter. You have to save her. You have to save her..." Jiang Hao says through her tears.

After that, Chen Yuqing changes. He becomes abnormal, beginning to long for the very things he had scorned all his life.

He says to Jiang Hao, "Haohao, love me. Just give me a little, a tiny bit of love..."

Theme: Love and ideals should advance hand in hand