After Divorcing My Dream Man

In the mountaintop villa late at night, lightning flashes and thunder rolls as rain pours down. Bai Zhi clutches her stomach and collapses to her knees in pain. Feeling the life inside her slip away, her heart twists in anguish.

An hour earlier, Jiang Yufeng had brought her here for a romantic evening together. The man who usually wore a suit and tie had put on an apron and turned into a little chef, making her something to eat. Just as she was basking in the warmth of their happiness, Jiang Yufeng took a phone call and then left her behind, pregnant and alone.

The usually calm and composed man couldn't keep the panic from showing in his unsteady steps as he left, because the person on the other end of the phone was Xu Ximan, his unattainable first love from his youth.

At that moment, Bai Zhi understood that Jiang Yufeng didn't love her. He was willing to marry her only because she was suitable for the role of a wife.

She lost the baby, and Bai Zhi finally came to her senses.

Given Jiang Yufeng's wealth, divorcing him wouldn't be easy. So Bai Zhi stayed outwardly composed, quietly sorted out their shared assets, and collected proof of Jiang Yufeng's transfers to Xu Ximan. When the time came, she confronted him and demanded a divorce.

Jiang Yufeng thought Bai Zhi wanted a divorce only to punish him. His mistake had caused them to lose their child, and once she had punished him enough and calmed down, she'd obediently come back. He knew better than anyone how much Bai Zhi loved him.

But one month, two months, three months passed, and Bai Zhi never appeared before him again. Then, at their next meeting, there was a young man beside her. Bai Zhi introduced him as her boyfriend.

Jiang Yufeng was furious, but he had no right to question her. After all, they were divorced.

His friends all said Bai Zhi had found a new boyfriend so quickly just to make him jealous. Jiang Yufeng thought so too. They'd been together for so many years. She couldn't possibly have moved on so easily.

So he waited for Bai Zhi to come back to him. As he waited, she moved in with the young hottie. As he kept waiting, she had a child with him.

At last, Jiang Yufeng came to his senses in a panic: Bai Zhi really wasn't coming back.

Han Jing: So I don't even deserve a name, huh?

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The ex-husband gets his comeuppance. The heroine doesn't go back to him.

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In 1990s Hong Kong, the economy is booming, and the city is awash in luxury and indulgence. Nineteen-year-old Yang Xiaoxi travels from the mainland to Hong Kong for work. Through a twist of fate, she saves Mr. Ren, a titan of Hong Kong's business world.

Mr. Ren has one son, Ren Sinian, a standout among Hong Kong's younger generation: an aristocratic heir, refined and aloof, with a face capable of captivating everyone.

Yang Xiaoxi falls in love with him at first sight.

To repay Yang Xiaoxi for saving his life, Mr. Ren decides that his son will marry her.

Yang Xiaoxi enters the wealthy household full of excitement and hope, only to find hell waiting for her.

Ren Sinian already has a childhood sweetheart, his unattainable first love, so he treats his wife with cold indifference. Yang Xiaoxi does everything she can to fawn over him and win his attention. To prove she didn't marry him for his money, she lives like an ascetic, rarely leaving home and scrimping on everything, all in the hope that he'll think a little more of her.

But until the day she dies, Ren Sinian never thinks more of her. He can't even be bothered to look at her.

Chen Baozhu was abandoned by her parents when she was little. Fortunately, she was adopted by a well-educated couple who cherished her like the apple of their eye and gave her the best of everything, from material comforts to educational opportunities. Chen Baozhu also excelled on her own, winning countless honors from childhood onward and enjoying a bright future.

One day, Chen Baozhu wakes up as Yang Xiaoxi. This is another life she could have lived: never abandoned by her parents, she grew up in poverty and dropped out of school while still a child to work and support her younger brother. The moment she left her novice village, she met a top-tier heartbreaker like Ren Sinian. She fell into his spell and suffered, never knowing love, spending her whole life being scorned and despised.

It's all right, Yang Xiaoxi. From now on, I'll love you.

There's no need to live like an ascetic. Chen Baozhu has always known how to love herself. She spends what needs to be spent, buying clothes, shoes, makeup, and beauty treatments, dressing herself up as beautifully as she can. She also makes use of every available resource to climb higher.

As for her husband, she's focused on herself, so naturally she acts as if he doesn't exist.

And so she doesn't notice that Ren Sinian has begun looking at her differently.

Until one day, the proud, aloof man speaks to her first. "Would you like to have dinner together tonight?"

She replies with polite distance, "Sorry, I'm busy."

At first, it was, "You know how our marriage came about, so don't pry into my private affairs." Then it became, "You're my wife. Can't you like me just a little?"

The aloof heartthrob turns into a lovesick puppy.

The heroine doesn't love him.

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Blurb:

Jiang Wan has lost her memory. She has forgotten what happened in the past and what she used to do. With no particular skills, she muddles through each day, living like a useless person.

She sees that man on a rainy day. He stands across the street watching her, dressed in a somber black suit with every button fastened up to the top. His handsome face is impassive, and his long, cool fingers roll a string of prayer beads.

Later, Jiang Wan notices that he sometimes appears somewhere nearby, never approaching, only watching from a distance. She doesn't remember him, but she feels that he must know her.

It's not hard for Jiang Wan to find out who he is. He's the head of a multinational corporation, and his family is well known throughout the north.

Jiang Wan thinks that someone as useless as her could never have anything to do with a man like him. She doesn't understand why he keeps appearing. Curiosity finally gets the better of her, and one day she gathers her courage and asks him if they know each other.

His deep, unfathomable eyes settle on her. Jiang Wan instinctively feels a chill, but doesn't notice the long fingers holding the prayer beads tense until they stiffen, or the slight tremble in his voice.

"You used to be my wife," he says.

"..."

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After getting together with Xu Yanzhou, Jiang Wan is told by the people around her that she doesn't love him. No matter how much he does for her, she remains unmoved, and she was the one who asked for the divorce.

Jiang Wan thinks she must have been rather ungrateful.

How could she not love him? She likes everything about him.

To reassure Xu Yanzhou, Jiang Wan holds his hand, smiling gently with a steady gaze.

"Whatever happened in the past, I love you now. I'll do my best to build a life with you from now on."

After years of worldly experience and long practice, Xu Yanzhou's heart has become calm and detached. Yet now he grips her hand as if gone mad, his eyes reddening with restraint, his suppressed voice wavering.

"Jiang Wan, you mustn't lie to me!"

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