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Meng Changzhou, the newly appointed head of the Meng family in Hong Kong, is a man of unmatched prestige and power, able to cover the sky with one hand.
Jiang Yuetang was raised in the Meng household from childhood. Sweet and obedient, she was known to everyone as the most well-behaved "little miss of the Meng family."
She thought of Meng Changzhou as her "older brother," her one and only refuge.
Only later did she realize he was an abyss, a chain, a fate she couldn't escape.
By day, Meng Changzhou was the refined, distinguished heir to a wealthy family, doting on her as his "good little sister."
By night, he was a madman, keeping her trapped at his side and taking whatever he wanted.
She feared him, yet was infatuated with him.
After countless feverish nights, she finally understood:
This man lacked for nothing, least of all her laughable love.
On a rainy night, she left a farewell letter on the desk and said softly, "Thank you for taking care of me."
He took off his glasses and advanced step by step, his voice so cold it was merciless. "Without my permission, you don't even have the right to walk out that door."
She steeled herself, willing to break with him for good.
*
Years later, she returned from overseas as a completely new person.
The once poor and fragile foster girl had become Hong Kong's most dazzling rising star.
At a glittering banquet, she held the arm of a blond, blue-eyed man and smiled calmly. "Mr. Meng, this is my fiance."
The crowd erupted in astonishment, their eyes turning as one to the man seated at the head of the table.
He raised his wineglass and smiled elegantly, but his long, well-defined fingers had gone faintly white from gripping it too hard.
*
After the banquet, at the end of a dim corridor, he said nothing as he pressed her into a shadowy room.
His long fingers touched hers, then suddenly stopped. The cold silver ring stung his heart.
His voice was hoarse, as if he were clutching the last lifeline in the eye of a storm. "Yuetang, don't you love me anymore?"
She lowered her head to fix a loose strand of hair by her ear, her tone cool and distant. "I'm engaged now. Are you saying, Mr. Meng, that you want to be my lover?"
*
She thought she'd finally escaped his control.
Until that moment.
"Had enough running?"
Her fingertips trembled. She looked up abruptly.
The man stood behind her, his dark eyes deep and brooding. Between his long fingers, he turned the hair ribbon she'd thrown away long ago. His low voice drifted carelessly into her ear:
"Yuetang, you were born to belong to me."
With possessive intensity, he dragged her back into his arms.
This time, he laid his very heart bare for her.
"Unhinged, powerful older man x soft but resilient caged bird"
*Foster-family trope / status gap / size difference / extreme angst and tension, love and hate intertwined
*Forbidden tension in the early stages, then a groveling pursuit after losing her, with the unhinged man bowing his head
"I turned my heart toward the moon, but the moon forsook Changzhou."
1. They are not related by blood or law, and the heroine's engagement is fake!
2. Both are each other's first and only, one-on-one romance, happy ending.
3. The male lead is a madman with limits, a law-abiding criminal: deeply twisted, but with serious reasons.
4. Pure wish-fulfillment fiction, with calculated seduction, possessive love, and maximum romantic tension. Convenient transportation.
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Modern romance in progress:
Palm-Sized Forbidden Love [Possessive Love, Faux Uncle and Niece]: After reuniting following years apart, she is forcibly claimed by her faux uncle.
Palm-Sized Devotion [Foster Family]: A bright young heiress and her gentle, sickly foster brother.
My Late Husband Gets Jealous: Everyday life living with my late husband.
When Snow Falls [Dark, Faux Uncle and Niece]: Trapped in the home of a gloomy older man.
Historical romance specials:
Does My Master Want to Kill Me Today, Too?: A cruel master keeps a fox in captivity.
The Pillow Sect: A Prefect's Record of Disciplining His Wife: Her teacher by day, her husband by night.
[In a nutshell] Haughty older men lose control and go mad for love. Find them all in my profile!
Theme: Be brave and sincere to find true happiness and freedom
Pampered in His Palm [Foster Care]
[Foster Care] My Champion Brother
Lessons from the Pillow: A Prefect's Record of Disciplining His Wife
The Sickly Professor I Forced Into Marriage (GB)
Forbidden Pet in His Palm [Coercive Love · Fake Uncle and Nephew]
Trespassing on Green Mountain [Teacher-Student Romance]
Come Into My Dreams [Teacher and Student]
[Foster Care] The Pavlov Effect
After the Rain Tide [Foster Care]
Coming-of-Age Ceremony [Foster Care]
Immortal product! State banquet! Has he ever asked me to make you gasp like this... Just these pseudo-brothers and sisters, forced to pull, we are vines entangled with each other!
Should I choose my brother or my fiancé? 🐶
Oh no, the male protagonist smells the dampness. My good sister, where are you going~
"Many years later, Meng Changzhou still remembers..." To catch the author a big bug here, he should probably remember the way she looked up at him.
Is the story set in the 1990s?
Keep going, it looks good, come on, author 🐶
Please tell me if the male protagonist has any good female friends with whom his ex-girlfriend Bai Yueguang is ambiguously dating, and who is his fiancée and whom he is marrying 🥺
Teacher, teacher, that's great. You're back?? I thought you really didn't update anymore?? Please be sure to write it down??????
Be happy, eat on time, author. Go out and relax more. This article you wrote is really wonderful. Come on, come on, tomorrow will be better??
Quezuki-chan needs to be dripping! Clicking on the column and seeing the sentence "Literature is my White Moonlight" is really touching, for me, who graduated from the Chinese Department. At that time, I was reading the speech written by Chen Sihe about the interpretation of "Thunderstorm": "But "Thunderstorm" is not like this. Although many young people have died, you still feel that living is beautiful, because there is an ideal thing in our world, there is a thing of "love and beauty" West. Why do I emphasize this? Because I find that this is what our society lacks most, but it is precisely the power of ideals and love that people need in any era. "My current reading thought is: Literature is a ray of white moonlight. When I saw the literature written by Quezuki-chan is my white moonlight, I felt hit for a moment. There are so many different styles of Chinese language and literature, I am so worried about them all my life!