Uncle romance / coming-of-age love / an old flame reignited / age gap
[Brilliant, proud heiress VS. cold, powerful, and self-restrained tycoon]
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Nan Zhi is the only little princess of the Nan family, a wealthy family in Hong Kong, three generations deep. A dazzling, proud flower of high society, she lives as she pleases.
Her biggest headache is figuring out how to break things off cleanly with her "frenemy," the son of the Shen family, to whom she was betrothed as a baby.
Then Gu Senyu, a decisive, cool-headed, and dignified new head of the family, returns to the Shen household, and Nan Zhi starts scheming.
"Uncle, he stole my dessert!"
So her "frenemy" was punished by being made to bake little cakes in the kitchen all night.
"Uncle, he played a prank on me and made me embarrass myself in front of my friends!"
Her "frenemy" was shipped off to the company's African branch for a month of training.
After winning again and again and getting a taste for it, Nan Zhi made a bold decision.
Armed with a pile of scandalous rumors she'd made up about her "frenemy," she went to Gu Senyu to complain:
"Uncle, he's a total playboy, a shameless troublemaker. I want to break off the engagement!"
The man held a cigarette between his teeth, leisurely set down the documents in his hand, and leaned back against the sofa, his back straight but his posture languid.
Through the swirling white smoke, his dark eyes were deep and shadowy, his presence overwhelming.
"Breaking it off is out of the question. What do you think of me?"
Nan Zhi: ...
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Gu Senyu is arrogant, cold, and ruthless, a legendary figure among the old-money elite and the newly wealthy.
A workaholic who keeps clear of romance, he's practically a demon of abstinence. Yet he dotes on the little princess of the Nan family like no one else.
At first, Nan Zhi couldn't understand why.
Until one rainy night after their wedding, she found a yellowed photograph in Gu Senyu's study.
In it, a youthful girl wore a pink diamond tiara, dazzling and proud. It was taken at her coming-of-age ceremony when she was ten.
No one knew that this always-composed and proper man had already harbored forbidden feelings for her back then.
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Later, in the quiet of every midnight, the cold and restrained man would pull her into his arms and murmur passionately against her ear.
"Baby, I really love you..."
The rose he had lovingly spoiled with his own hands was naturally his to pluck, blooming for him alone.
#I thought he was an elder, but he wants me to be his wife?!#
#What could an older man possibly have in mind? He just wants to eat some young grass!#
& Eight-year age gap, coming-of-age romance, an old flame reignited
& The male lead takes his mother's surname. This story is connected to the upcoming Neighboring Preorder, Exclusive Obsession.
& Synopsis dated September 1, 2024, screenshot saved as proof.
Theme: Love and being loved
