Echoes in the Torrential Rain [Capital Circle]

[Faux Sweetheart, True Bandit Energy, Unhinged Beauty x Cold Outside, Alluring Within, Reclusive Clan Powerbroker]

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He Qingxiang is a doctor with Doctors Without Borders. During a mission, she found a four-year-old boy, adorable as a doll, who chased after her calling her Mommy.

The harbor was shrouded in thick nighttime fog. The young man who came to pick up the child was impeccably dressed in a suit, with sharp features and an icy, abstinent air of untouchable wealth.

He Qingxiang felt her long-dormant heart skip a beat. Just as she was about to forcibly detain the father and son, the man picked up his child and glanced at her with eyes as cold as a blade. Turning to leave, he denied it: "She just looks like you. She's not your mother."

He Qingxiang narrowed her eyes slightly.

A stepmother is still a mother.

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He Qingxiang took her cousin's identity and followed her to Jing City. In public, she acted gentle and demure, and no one saw through her disguise. The only problem was that her cousin had a fiance named Xie Jianyan.

Her fiance brought her to a family banquet, hoping she would choose another Xie heir so he could escape the mess of an arranged marriage.

He Qingxiang swept her gaze over the roomful of eligible young men, then raised her slender fingertip and pointed to the stern man at the head of the long table. "Who is he?"

Her fiance's face darkened. Gritting his teeth, he said, "That's my great-uncle. Don't even think about him."

He Qingxiang was intrigued. "Why?"

Her fiance sneered. "He's stayed chaste all these years for his trashy ex-wife. What makes you think you have a chance?"

He Qingxiang didn't believe him. How could any man be that faithful?

As her true identity gradually came to light, the possessiveness in her fiance's eyes kept growing. He warned her again and again: she should get ready for the wedding, because a man like the family patriarch wouldn't waste even a glance on her.

Really?

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Xie Jincheng, twenty-seven, the youngest patriarch of the Xie clan in Huajing, a man of immense power and prestige.

On a snowy winter night, a rumor spread through high society:

To catch a woman, the young Xie patriarch had shut down the airport and harbor, suspended railway service, and finally cornered her at a highway entrance.

When Xie Jianyan heard that his fiancee had offended the patriarch, he hurried to the scene. By the time he arrived, the commotion had ended, leaving only wreckage behind. The patriarch's bodyguards were negotiating with law enforcement.

Meanwhile, the dignified, untouchable patriarch crouched in the snow and gently pulled a pair of cotton socks onto his fiancee's feet, with the ease of someone who had done it countless times.

Xie Jianyan suddenly remembered why the peace-lock pendant around his fiancee's neck had looked familiar.

It was the jade pendant every Xie child received at birth.

It was also called a token of love.

[Young Marriage + Reuniting After a Breakup + Faux Forbidden Romance + Secret Lovers + Secret Identity and Face-Slapping + Adorable Child + One-on-One, Both Experienced Only With Each Other]

Bonus Scene:

After moving into Xie Manor with her fiance, He Qingxiang pretended to be sweet and innocent. In truth, she repeatedly crossed the corridor lined with honeysuckle and entered the waterside pavilion reserved for the patriarch alone.

After hitting a wall three hundred times, she finally lured Xie Jincheng into bed.

The man was well endowed and skilled, with an exceptionally strong service ethic.

He Qingxiang was pleased and planted a kiss on the little mole below his Adam's apple.

On a rainy night, her fiance suddenly knocked on the door. "Great-uncle, have you seen my fiancee?"

The man above her had deep, clear eyes that seemed bottomless. He studied her tense expression as if he'd discovered something entertaining.

"Afraid he'll walk in and catch us doing this?"

"Has he never been here?"

"Keep your voice down. What if your fiance hears you?"

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Reader's Guide:

1. Everyone has different tastes. You have to try the food to know if you like it, and stories are the same. Pirated copies are incomplete. It's not easy being a full-time author, so thank you for supporting the official version. [Bows obediently]

2. The heroine and the second male lead are only engaged, not a couple. All of her scenes with him are there to make the hero jealous. The second male lead has fewer scenes than the hero. There is no flirting, kissing, or embracing, and neither character is deliberately put through angst. The hero controls the overall situation, but the heroine is the main focus.

3. I wrote this story with care, but I can't please everyone. If you don't like it, please stop reading rather than attack the characters or author with prejudice.

4. The railway suspension and other events in the blurb are mainly due to a blizzard, not the hero abusing his power. The blurb is from the perspective of rumors, so naturally it includes exaggerations.

5. The heroine is exceptionally strong, has avoidant attachment, low moral standards, and cannot take responsibility for her feelings. The hero is cold outside and alluring within, deeply calculating and extremely controlling. He's a big bad guy who secretly put a tracker on the heroine not long after they met.

6. The plot and romance are both rich. I call it sweet because I think a happy ending makes a sweet story. Even the blurb makes it clear this isn't a mindless fluffy romance.

·The first time I met her, she was seventeen, a young doctor on a mission in the primeval forest. Alone, she carried me out of a bandit stronghold.

·The second time, after a terrible turn of events, she was like an injured crane with broken wings. I took her in and brought her back to Fanghai, where I helped her study and go to school.

·Summer never ends in this city. As the typhoons raged for days, she came sweeping toward me across the ocean currents like a warm front. From then on, even the city's torrential rain became a glittering spectacle.

Xie Jincheng's diary, age nineteen.

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"Does the Mixed-Blood Young Master Have to Accept an Arranged Marriage?"

Pretty, sweet, adorable, well-behaved heiress x sunny, wicked bad-dog pretty boy

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Lin Suiyi was working a summer part-time job at a hotel front desk when she caught her boyfriend cheating. She was so furious she trembled, but he only put her down:

"You have no connections and no ability. What do you have besides that face? If you can't give me what I want, don't hold me back."

Lin Suiyi was a total mama's girl. After seeing her scumbag boyfriend for what he was, she unashamedly clung to her mother and sobbed.

Her mother made the decision on the spot: "Why are you crying? I'll arrange a marriage for you!"

Her marriage match had just turned eighteen. He was 188 centimeters tall, broad-shouldered and slim-waisted, one-quarter Russian, with clear, deep amber-green eyes full of affection. He was so handsome he looked like a gorgeous male lead lifted straight out of an anime. When his eyes accidentally met Lin Suiyi's, his ears turned red.

On their wedding night, both of them missed their mothers terribly. One sat at the head of the bed and cried, while the other sat at the foot and cried.

After they married, their life was a complete mess. They couldn't get through three sentences without saying "My mom said," and they called their mothers to ask about everything, big or small.

Her best friend asked, "You two... don't tell me you ask your moms about that kind of thing, too?"

Lin Suiyi blushed. "Maybe... boys just know what to do when it comes to that."

On the bed, Jiang Suye was a completely different person. He was always saying things in English that made her blush, and he liked making her cry and beg for mercy.

"Baby, you sound so good when you cry. You've soaked this place through."

"Good girl. Hold on a little longer. We're not there yet."

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Not long afterward, Lin Suiyi ran into her ex-boyfriend. He was limping, and he avoided her as if she'd seen a ghost.

Lin Suiyi was puzzled. By chance, she learned from her best friend that her ex had once come to beg for another chance, but Jiang Suye had broken his leg and threatened him not to go near her.

Lin Suiyi couldn't believe it. Who? Her sweet little mama's boy husband?

Her best friend exclaimed, "A mama's boy? The possessiveness in his eyes was like he was licking you all over with his gaze!"

Lin Suiyi said, "Impossible. You must have seen it wrong."

Her sweet little mama's boy husband was so well-behaved. When he couldn't find her, his eyes would turn red, and he'd remind her to get home on time like a puppy.

Their newlywed life was sweet and affectionate, until Lin Suiyi accidentally uncovered a shocking family secret behind their arranged marriage. With her uncle's help, she left home in despair.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the marital home she shared with Jiang Suye.

She had never known the villa had a fully furnished basement level. Chains extended from the walls, shackling her ankle.

Jiang Suye pressed his cheek to her palm. "Baby, do you want a divorce so you can be with your little uncle?"

Lin Suiyi had never seen Jiang Suye like this. Realizing he'd been pretending all along, she was so frightened that tears streamed down her face.

Jiang Suye reverently kissed away her tears, his voice so gentle it made her shiver. "What a shame. He can only watch you cry while I have my way with you."

[Marriage First, Love Later + Young Marriage + Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within + One-on-One, Both Experienced Only With Each Other + Wife-Chasing at the Crematorium + Dog Training]

[Jewelry Restorer x Genius Sniper]

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Theme: The prerequisite for having love is to love yourself first.