A refined, scheming heir to a financial empire x a cool, resilient on-camera reporter
[Second chance at love / Reunion after years apart / Angsty push and pull]
Zhou Wenyong was heir to a top financial dynasty. He seemed gentle and cultured, but acted with ruthless decisiveness.
The first time they met, she came to his rescue at a press conference. Later, on a snowy night in Toronto, he leaned against the door and glanced at her with a lazy lift of his brows. "So you slept with me and ran off?"
After a brief time together, they called things off before it went too far and parted on good terms. But to everyone's surprise, the usually composed and self-controlled Zhou Wenyong nearly lost his life several times over a female reporter.
"Zhou Wenyong, you'll find out just how heartless Shi Yu can be. To her, you and I are nothing but shadows of her brother."
The man lounged on the sofa, his clean, slender fingers lightly tapping his glass. His profile was striking and refined, his manner elegant and noble.
He could not even be bothered to raise his eyelids. His voice turned cold. "Are you telling me what to do?"
*
Sure enough, he gave her all his irrational devotion and favoritism, yet she cruelly left him again just when he needed her support most.
During a thunderstorm, Shi Yu saw a news report at the airport saying the CEO of Wenyuan had been in a car accident. She ran frantically toward the hospital, but a figure stopped her. Her eyes reddened as she glared at him. "Don't push me too far. If it comes to it, we can all go down together."
Later, Zhou Wenyong turned the tide and claimed the top position at Wenyuan Group, while she had long since disappeared from his life.
He remained perfectly calm, without the slightest change in his mood, until one rainy night. Holding the number he had looked at countless times, he could not stop himself from calling her.
"It's raining in Jingxi."
It was a code only she understood. She said nothing.
"Haohou, say something. If you say it, I'll believe you."
"Zhou Wenyong, I really don't love you."
After hanging up, she wept uncontrollably in the dark.
*
They met again three years later. She returned to the country, no longer Shi Yu, but Xu Yu.
At a private party, he saw her with her arm linked through a man's.
Shi Yu was alone on the terrace, taking in the breeze. When she turned, she saw Zhou Wenyong leaning against the wall, watching her. She faltered. He, however, was perfectly calm. "You still have terrible taste in men."
She turned to leave, but he grabbed her, pinned her against the wall, and kissed her hard. "You're supposed to be so good at this. Why are you still such a bad kisser?"
Breathless from his kiss, she looked at him with red eyes. "We broke up. Please behave yourself."
Zhou Wenyong gave a dry laugh. "Behave myself? You didn't seem to care about behaving yourself when you were playing with me."
Only later did she find all the tickets he had bought for trips back and forth to London, and the letters she had sent to Japan, thinking he would never receive them.
Love is taking my hand amid a chorus of doubt.
[Reading Guide]
1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced; happy ending
2. Six-year age gap
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A sister who knows when to yield and when to stand her ground x an arrogant, unhinged man
Step-siblings / Coercive possession / Love and hatred in a tragic romance
Luo Mingting, the heir to the Luo family, was someone nobody in their circle dared provoke. Yet everyone saw the new "little sister" pour tea all over him.
The day Liang Yixue was brought into the Luo family, a heavy snowstorm fell over Jingxi.
In the main hall, Luo Mingting leaned against a huanghuali horseshoe-back armchair. His features were proper and refined, but a cold, gloomy look clouded his eyes.
Everyone thought Luo Mingting hated his new sister.
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At a party, someone cornered Liang Yixue and spoke to her lewdly. "Why pretend? You can't match your mother's skill at handling men?"
Before the snickers around them had even faded, a champagne glass came crashing down from the second floor, grazing the man's ear before shattering against the wall.
Everyone looked up in alarm.
Luo Mingting leaned languidly against the railing, half his body hidden in shadow. He looked down at them, his whole presence radiating a chilling menace.
Liang Yixue stood where she was, her palm slick with sweat.
She didn't know if he was stepping in to help her or declaring something else.
A rainy night. Water streamed down the car windows as the cramped interior lay dim and gloomy.
Luo Mingting trapped Liang Yixue in the back seat. His fingertip wound around a strand of her hair, his voice low and husky. "When you need something, you call me Big Brother. When you don't, I'm Luo Mingting... Liang Yixue, you've sure gotten used to using me."
He chuckled, but there was no warmth in his eyes. Leaning close to her ear, he spoke in a chilling voice:
"I hear... my little sister has a boyfriend?"
Liang Yixue turned her face away and said nothing. Luo Mingting gripped her chin and forced her to face him, a dark fire burning in his eyes. "He's coming back. You're happy about that?"
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Liang Yixue only wanted to keep her head down at the Luo home for a year and leave as planned, but Luo Mingting refused to let her go. When another crisis struck her family, she had nowhere else to turn and went to him for help.
The chill of the night dew still lingered on him, but his fingertips were burning hot.
"You're asking me for help?" He gazed into her tear-drenched eyes, his thumb slowly brushing her lips. "What will you offer me?"
Her eyelashes trembled violently. Suddenly, he smiled, lowered his head, and kissed her quivering lashes. His hot breath poured into her ear:
"Where else can you run, Liang Yixue?"
Later, word spread through their circle that the Luo heir had knelt outside his mother's room all night. No one knew that she wasn't the one trapped. He simply never wanted to leave this snowbound world again.
Reading Guide:
1. Happy ending, single-couple romance
2. Seven-year age gap. She runs, he pursues. Heartbreaking melodrama and intense emotional push and pull
3. The leads are not registered in the same household and are not related by blood
4. Dragon x snow sparrow. The male lead is no good person, but he is devoted only to her and falls in love with her on his own
Theme: Love is both a weakness and armor
Still unhappy, I want to complain about how weird the heroine's last act of donating a kidney is. First of all, your diet is completely over. You can't eat fish, shrimps, rivers and seafood. You can't eat a lot of meat at once. You can hardly drink alcohol. You can't drink too many drinks containing fructose syrup (almost all drinks). You can't even drink too much water at once. In summer, when you sweat more and urinate less, your kidney burden is twice that of ordinary people. In addition to diet, medicines you take can also be very dangerous. Cold medicines, cough medicines and antibiotics that are eaten must be metabolized by the liver and kidneys. The filtration speed of a kidney is only half that of a normal person, but the liver is normal. This means that a large amount of water-soluble toxins produced by the liver have no time to be excreted and will be circulated into the brain, lungs and even the reproductive system. Some drugs that are highly toxic to the liver and kidneys cannot even be taken, and then the hero, an intellectual, respects and supports his wife for the rest of his life? [Eye roll]
After watching it, I feel that the male protagonist has changed, but the female protagonist seems to have not changed much from the beginning to the end. She is self-righteous and loves to look uncomfortable. And to be honest, the kidney donation at the end seems awkward. Finding a kidney source with the male protagonist's financial resources is not a problem at all. The female protagonist's kidney donation should be for the so-called peace of mind. Shouldn't people love themselves first? Besides, the heroine doesn't actually owe anything. Donating a kidney will shorten your life and affect your body's functions. It looks really frustrating.
The male protagonist is a domineering CEO, tall, rich, handsome and dedicated and affectionate. In addition to having a dark physique, the heroine has a self-righteous "I'm good for you, for the good of everyone" mode of doing things. It's not easy to love a domineering CEO so painfully, and also to love a grassroots person.
Mr. Lu is the best choice. . .
Does Mr. Zhou know how to fall in love? Wouldn't he rush to watch idol dramas and see how other bosses fall in love? .
It's so good. It's the only book I've read recently.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the author has written it well and it's super nice! Two people should live happily together! I'm having a withdrawal reaction, woo hoo
I loved it after reading it, it touched my heart, and the plot was so touching.
Wow wow wow the author is really not from Hunan. Pingjiang and Yuanjiang, I'm hallucinating.
Super beautiful ~ The pace is moderate ~ I will save it and re-read it several times ~