Etched in My Heart

Second-Chance Romance | Reunion from the Start

Possessive and scheming x cool, alluring beauty

In the summer she was 19, Ye Jinqiu had nowhere left to turn. In the end, she went to Qixian Residence, the place where the powerful elite of the capital loved to gather.

Amid the strings and pipes, someone recognized her. “Isn't that Ye Quzheng's daughter? What, now that your father has fallen, you're here to make money?”

When someone falls, everyone piles on. Ye Jinqiu's eyes were full of hopelessness, trapped with nowhere to turn.

Just then, the door behind her opened.

All the laughter and teasing stopped. In the blink of an eye, a group of dissolute young men bowed and scraped.

Shen Yanqing studied her face.

Her eyes brimmed with tears, making her look pitiful, but her brows were stubbornly furrowed.

Shen Yanqing held out his hand. “Will you come with me?”

It was Shen Yanqing's first time at Qixian Residence, and the first time he'd ever intervened in someone else's business.

He always kept his distance from women, but for the first time, he took a young woman's wrist and led her out of Qixian Residence to his villa in Beishan.

That year, Ye Jinqiu was 19, and Shen Yanqing was 24.

*

Five years passed in the blink of an eye.

Ye Jinqiu never expected to see Shen Yanqing again. After all, he had pulled her out of the swamp back then, only for her to turn around and shove him into the mud.

She hid from him and avoided him, but he was everywhere, leaving her nowhere to escape.

Body and soul.

But she was about to get married.

To outsiders, Shen Yanqing was famed for his refined manners and gentle dignity. Only he knew that, from the moment he learned she was engaged, a thousand vicious schemes surged through his heart.

Just as she fell into despair again, lost and helpless, Shen Yanqing walked toward her, his shadow falling like a clear breeze beneath a bright sky. He said the same words as he had years ago: “Will you come with me?”

But this time, his eyes had changed. They were full of the ambition of a man who could not have the woman he loved.

-If your love must be mixed with deception, then I'll take both the truth and the lies.

| Five-year age gap, the powerful man finally loses his composure

Theme: Love should be sincere