Dew Soaked in the Sound of the Tide [Beijing Circle]

[Reunited at the Start / Career-Driven Heroine Who Has Sworn Off Love x Sharp-Tongued, Devoted Hero with His Head in the Clouds] As the heir to one of the most prominent families in Beijing and a rising star in AI medical technology, Qi Jingzhi is nearly thirty, yet has never been involved in any romantic scandals. Recently, rumors have been flying that he had a first love overseas and stayed chaste for her for ten years. Just as his devoted-lover image was moving everyone to tears, he unexpectedly rushed into a flash marriage with Gu Yuan, the adopted daughter of the Gu family who had been switched at birth. There were no family negotiations or traditional wedding formalities. They got their marriage certificate in a hurry, and that very night he flew to Hong Kong, leaving his new wife alone in their marital home. Gu Yuan became the most pitiful wife in the circle of wealthy families overnight. On the third day after their wedding, Qi Jingzhi returned to Beijing from Hong Kong. His black Phantom, with its lucky license plate, appeared once more beneath an old apartment building near the hospital, parked there from eight in the evening until one in the morning. Inside a rented two-bedroom apartment, the bathroom light flickered on and off countless times. The darkness swallowed the man's hoarse, resentful voice. "You call yourself pitiful? Have you no shame?" "You were the one who abandoned me for ten years." "You were the one who used work as an excuse to brush me off." "Every time you kick me out in the middle of the night, I feel like trash you've used and thrown away." Doctor x CEO / Adopted daughter of a wealthy family x Heir / Rekindled love / Married first, reconciled later Both leads are each other's only partners Coming next: Tides of Romance, a Beijing power player x a Jiangnan beauty, (pseudo) uncle-and-sister-in-law romance. Please add it to your collection! Blurb: Huo Xien had been married to Pei Xu for three months when her new husband died in a hotel suite owned by his family. The forensic report said he had engaged in vigorous sexual activity with another person. Her husband, who had hurried overseas after they got their marriage certificate and had cheated on her before he died without even knowing he had returned to China, was not someone Huo Xien could find a shred of grief for. As she gazed at the body in the crystal coffin, all she could think was that karma always comes around, and no one escapes it. May every man who can't keep it in his pants end up just like this corpse. On a dark, windy night, the trees in the funeral home's courtyard stood stiff and cold, their leaves rustling like ghosts wailing. Someone stepped out of the back seat of a silver Bentley and draped a coat still warm from his body over her shoulders, beneath the cold light of the stars and moon. "Sister-in-law, my condolences." * Huo Xien knew perfectly well that not one of the Pei men was any good. The eldest was her unlucky, widowed, philandering husband. The youngest was an aimless freeloader who lived off his parents. As for the one in the middle, rumors said he had nearly sent his own father to prison to seize power. Now there was one more charge to add to the list: Seduce his dead brother's wife. Covet his sister-in-law. The day she returned to Jiangnan, the station was packed with people. Pei Yue bought her a ticket and saw her onto the platform. As he watched the electronic display scrolling from Beijing to Suzhou, her gaze fell on the signet ring on his pinky. "From the moment my brother died, you were no longer husband and wife." "You and I have nothing to hide." "If you change your mind, come back to me." Later, Pei Yue went to Suzhou alone. In a little Jiangnan courtyard house tucked into an alley, Huo Xien was helping a guest hang laundry. White sheets swayed in the breeze. A hand gently brushed the loose hair from her lips, and the signet ring caught the light, gleaming like rippling diamonds. "I forgot to tell you that day." "Even if you don't change your mind, that's all right. Sooner or later, I'll come to you." Theme: The people who truly care for each other will always meet again.