Newlyweds After Five Years

Hong Kong vibes | Second-chance romance | Marriage before love | Fleeing while pregnant | Size difference | Age gap

Proud, stubborn, beautiful and talented woman x reserved, devoted tech tycoon

After dropping her son off at kindergarten, Yu Ruoqing gets a call.

It's from her husband, whom she hasn't seen in five years.

"The time we agreed on is almost here."

Cheng Jing'an is coming to Hong Kong to talk to her about divorce.

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When their friends learn they've been secretly married for five years, they're stunned.

"You and Yu Ruoqing were childhood friends, but you haven't spoken to each other in years!"

Outsiders only see them as the most dazzling couple at Northern University. She's an academician's only daughter, and he's her father's favorite student.

But those in the know all understand that her father practically raised him as his own son.

Their friend presses him:

"Why did you marry her? Because she's beautiful? Because of her inheritance? Or because you felt sorry for her, a genius deliberately overlooked by Academician Yu, and wanted to make it up to her this way?"

"No, wait. Yu Ruoqing hates you most of all. She's stubborn and proud. Would she really accept you?"

Cheng Jing'an falls silent.

The man's handsome features lower as he watches the last wisp of smoke rise between his fingers.

Just like that night, when she snatched the cigarette from his lips and put it in her own mouth,

then pulled him onto the sofa and pressed her lips to his. "Help me..." "Please..."

She said it three times in all.

Afterward, the sofa was soaked three times over.

"That's all in the past," their friend says consolingly.

"She's now the youngest professor at Hong Kong University, and you've built a ten-digit fortune on your own. You never should have married in the first place, and there's no child or property to tie you together. Maybe you should give her part of your assets as compensation?"

Before going to Hong Kong, Cheng Jing'an has already prepared everything.

He no longer resents her false affection or the way she discarded him when she'd finished with him. He doesn't begrudge her for caring only about work and truly going five years without contacting him. He doesn't care that whenever he calls, she can't even be bothered to humor him.

Those two bright-red certificates were the first time their names had appeared together,

and they would also be the last in this lifetime.

But at a private party atop Victoria Peak that night,

when someone sees Yu Ruoqing's beauty and the adorable boy holding her hand, they start to approach her,

only to be rudely stopped by the tech tycoon currently at the height of his success.

Cheng Jing'an stands tall, his handsome features looming over them as he says darkly,

"Has no one ever told you that this is my wife and child?"

- One-on-one romance. The male and female leads are each other's only love, body and soul. Happy ending.

- The story focuses on the push and pull between the leads. The child is just along for the ride.

- Written on a whim, with dark tastes. The leads are deeply flawed. Fans of either lead should stay away.

- The setting is entirely fictional, and everything serves the romance. Please don't apply it to real life.

Theme: Love is the hardest thing to let go of.