Lies in the Heat of Love [Rekindled Romance]

Devoted and obsessive x clearheaded and falling hard; SC, HE, set in Beijing and Hong Kong, lovers reunited after a breakup

"Fall for her once, and you'll be falling for her for the rest of your life."

1. Five years after their breakup, Liang Zhuo sees Cheng Yueying again. Her expression is blank and her manner icy; there's no trace of the docile girl she used to be around him.

Of course, Liang Zhuo thinks with a self-mocking smile. It was all an act to fool him.

There's no doubt Liang Zhuo hates Cheng Yueying. She deceived him, and he's still shaken by it.

But he repeats his mistake and falls into Cheng Yueying's trap all over again.

2. "Let's not stay here. Come back with me to when we were eighteen, before fate finds us."

Yue Ying's eighteenth year was abruptly split in two by fate.

Pulled away from her heavy schoolwork, she became Cheng Yueying, the youngest daughter of the Cheng family of Hong Kong, who had been lost to them and raised elsewhere.

The tabloid papers said she didn't understand Cantonese and wasn't welcome. She spent every day walking on eggshells, her life like a fog with no clear direction.

Until one day, she ran straight into someone's arms.

The boy was tall and slender. He bent down to steady her by the shoulders. A black cartilage piercing gleamed brightly, and an utterly carefree smile played on his lips as he raised an eyebrow at her. "So you're the Cheng family's Rapunzel?"

His smile was so handsome that Cheng Yueying blushed.

Later, someone warned her: "Be sure to stay away from Liang Zhuo."

Liang Zhuo loved fast cars, a life of wine and women, and anything new and thrilling.

But he had no heart.

Cheng Yueying lowered her head and smiled indifferently.

Liang Zhuo's eighteenth year was dazzling.

He received a massive trust fund, made a name for himself as the young master of the Liang family, and met a girl.

She had a small, pale face. She was timid and delicate.

When he pinned her against the wall, all he had to do was lift her chin, and she would obediently open her mouth, revealing white teeth and a tender pink tongue, letting him kiss her.

Liang Zhuo murmured in praise, almost with a sigh: "Such a good girl."

No one knew that the wayward, unruly young master of the Liang family had fallen into a secret romance, feverish as a high fever.

Until Cheng Yueying looked at him with cold eyes and said, "I never loved you. From beginning to end, I was just deceiving you."

3. They only got back together five years after separating.

On the night they reconciled, they spent the whole night making love. Liang Zhuo was a little rough, and Cheng Yueying left red marks all over his back.

He didn't mind at all. His sleep problems of the past few years vanished without medication, and he slept soundly with Cheng Yueying in his arms.

The next morning, Liang Zhuo woke up hugging a pillow. The person who should have been in his arms was tiptoeing toward the door with a travel bag.

Liang Zhuo was so angry his eyes turned red. He rushed over, grabbed Cheng Yueying's hand, and demanded, "You're leaving again... Are you deceiving me again?"

He tried to hold back his anger, but couldn't hide the hurt in his voice.

Cheng Yueying looked a little helpless. She rose on her toes and kissed him. "I'm just going on a business trip."

The two romances, before and after their reunion, feature a reversal of the power dynamic.

The story is told chronologically from their reunion onward.

*From Jian Zhen

Theme: The love is real.