The untouchable beauty falls from her pedestal | The chase is on after the breakup
Ji Shuran always gave up halfway, except when it came to pursuing Xu Yanheng. She persisted for years.
She gave him her whole heart and approached him with burning passion,
but all she ever got in return was his cold rejection: "I have no feelings for you, and I don't want to get involved with you."
On the Lantern Festival, she carried two flower lanterns to find him, full of hope.
"Brother A Heng, would you come see the lantern fair with me?"
He glanced at her indifferently and said coldly, "I have something to do later."
At the lantern fair, amid the dazzling lights, Ji Shuran saw Xu Yanheng with another woman.
They chatted happily, and a smile appeared on the man's usually expressionless, handsome face, a smile he had never shown her.
At last, Ji Shuran didn't want to pursue him anymore.
But by chance, she drank an aphrodisiac and ended up sharing an intimate night with the refined young nobleman, who had always kept himself pure.
After the stormy night, his voice was hoarse, but his tone was especially solemn. "I'll ask my teacher for your hand in marriage."
Ji Shuran refused coldly. "There's no need. Let's pretend yesterday never happened. Thank you, Lord Xu, for giving me the antidote."
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Xu Yanheng devoted himself to navigating the treacherous world of officialdom. He believed love clouded the mind and despised people who used connections to climb the ranks, so he kept his teacher's daughter, Ji Shuran, at a distance.
Lately, however, he had been losing focus again and again.
The woman who had always found ways to appear before him, and who had been so alluring that night, had suddenly put distance between them. Whenever she saw him from afar, she took another route.
If she couldn't avoid him, she had no choice but to greet him:
"Lord Xu."
At a flower-viewing banquet, he saw Ji Shuran drinking and chatting with the son of the Minister of Revenue. Afterward, they left together and arranged to go admire the flowers.
They had clearly been intimate, lying together with their necks entwined. How could she still be thinking about another man?
For the first time, Xu Yanheng tasted the bitter ache of jealousy.
Unable to bear her deliberate coldness any longer, he finally cornered her behind a flower-covered wall.
Her eyes held surprise and uncertainty, but none of the affection she used to show him.
He gripped her hand tightly, dark clouds roiling in his eyes. "Yanyan, call me what you used to."
But she said, "Lord Xu, I don't think we're close."
He sneered and pressed her harder against the wall, his voice low and menacing.
"Is that so? But that night, you kept calling me 'Brother A Heng.'"
*One couple, both virgins
Blurb archived on January 27, 2025
Theme: Love is mutual
