Rain in Venice

Reunion after a long separation / Marriage first, love later / A flirt who reels him in / Secret identities / The regretful-chasing-his-wife trope / Rekindling an old flame

Playful, beautiful writer x Steady, distinguished investor

1.

The well-behaved Ji Yu has known since childhood that her family expects her to marry for the sake of an alliance.

But while in Venice getting her scuba instructor certification, she falls for Ji Fenglin, a refined, reserved businessman with striking features and a perfect physique. This golden boy has a secret no one knows: he's afraid of water.

She throws caution to the wind, uses her best friend's identity to set up a situation that saves him from drowning, and seduces him into falling in love with her!

She plans to disappear from his world completely a month later. Though they hide their identities and remain wary of one another, they can't resist the fire between them. On their last day together, he takes her to a church and makes a private marriage vow with her.

2.

Later, after the Ji family breaks off her engagement, she goes abroad to clear her head. On a return visit to Venice, she runs into Ji Fenglin, who is mourning his dead wife.

The once calm and distinguished man seems to have run all the way through the rain, disheveled and red-eyed. “So my dead wife was named Ji Yu?”

During that month at the hotel, she saw too many of his wild, ruthless sides. In the dim light, he catches the hand she swings at him and leans close with a mocking smile.

“You're so adorable when you curse at me between breaths.” He tells her to save her strength for crying.

When he takes her back to China and announces their marriage in front of the Ji family elders,

all the elders are astonished. “Didn't you just break off your engagement?”

The heroine panics and wants to run.

If only she'd known this would happen, she wouldn't have played around back then!

3.

After they marry, they treat each other with polite respect and honor their marriage agreement. Unlike the month of passionate infatuation when they first met, they have little to say to each other. He doesn't like coming home, and she enjoys her freedom.

But when their marital home in the Venice gardens is completed, he personally handles every flower and detail of the decor. She glimpses the deep affection behind his rational exterior. Her first love has stubbornly waited for her all along.

She rises on her toes and kisses his cool lips, then confesses amid the heartbeat that fills the room like fireworks: “Yu Yu loves you! And so does the baby.”

Little Extra:

Ji Yu casually tosses a pregnancy test with two lines into the trash, but Ji Fenglin carefully retrieves it and frames it in a display case. That's when she discovers his little habit.

“What are you doing?”

“I was afraid you'd disappear again, so I got into the habit of keeping everything you left me.”

Ji Yu's heart softens. “From now on, I'll treasure our memories with you.”

“For a lifetime?”

She says yes.

Written on February 5, 2025.

Theme: The essence of pursuing love comes from the desire to share a life together.