Savoring the Sweetness [Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium]

[Chase-Your-Wife-to-the-Crematorium] [Playboy's Emotional Breakdown] [Devoted Suitor] [People-Pleasing Good Girl vs. Handsome, Bad-Boy, Jealous Domineering Man]

From childhood onward, Ruan Xi had always been a good girl. The most rebellious thing she ever did was secretly love Li Ye for ten whole years.

Ten years later, they meet again.

She's transferred to Li Ye's company and becomes his personal assistant.

Li Ye shines like the sun. He's handsome, born with a silver spoon, and constantly surrounded by rumors of affairs.

The women by his side are always impossibly beautiful. And yet, he takes the initiative and pursues Ruan Xi.

Ruan Xi has always been pessimistic, and she's most afraid of getting something only to lose it. But under Li Ye's relentless pursuit, she eventually falls for him.

She even quits her job and gives up the chance to study abroad, something she'd dreamed of for years.

All because he told her, "I want you to be the first thing I see when I wake up every day."

But her sincere love is repaid with a joke.

The romantic love she'd imagined turns out to be nothing but a bet a rich playboy made to entertain himself.

In his eyes, she's just a change of pace, a plain bowl of porridge.

Ruan Xi leaves everything behind and resolutely heads overseas to pursue her dream.

But this is when Li Ye realizes he's already fallen deeply in love with her.

He was the one who conquered her heart.

And in the end, he was the one who couldn't get enough of her.

*

At a banquet three years later, Li Ye sees Ruan Xi again. In a flowing gown, she's both pure and alluring, the center of attention.

After the banquet, Li Ye corners her and says in a low voice, "How could you just leave like that and not contact me once in three years?"

Ruan Xi says nothing and slaps him.

Afterward, Li Ye goes almost mad, showing up everywhere Ruan Xi goes.

On his thirtieth birthday, he doesn't get so much as a greeting.

When he turns up at her door, he sees her having dinner with her boyfriend.

Only then does the arrogant playboy understand what it means to want something he can't have, to wish he were dead.

[Reading Guide]

1. A sweet-and-sour little treat

2. The male lead is not a virgin

[Next door: The One I Couldn't Avoid, a chase-your-wife story. The novel will launch once it has 100 follows.]

Jiang Xu is mild-mannered and has secretly loved Gu Jing for seven years, but she doesn't dare tell him.

Gu Jing is tall and handsome, bold and carefree, always the center of attention. Countless girls pursue him.

Once, when a woman wouldn't stop pestering him, he put an arm around Jiang Xu's shoulders and said with a teasing smile, "I'm taken. This is my girlfriend."

Beneath the dim lights, Jiang Xu lowered her head, her face turning bright red.

Jiang Xu walks him home.

Perhaps he's very drunk when he says, "A-Xu, want to give being together a try?"

His teasing smile makes it hard to tell if he's serious.

After they get together, Gu Jing's career takes off over the next three years.

She watches his rumors of affairs pile up, yet doesn't even have the courage to confront him.

Then a mutual friend brings up marriage. Jiang Xu has a carefully chosen gift in her hands when she hears him say, "We were just having fun. Why get married?"

Seven years of secret love, three years together.

Ten years, all a joke.

*

Jiang Xu leaves without a word, vanishing completely from Gu Jing's life.

At first, life goes on as usual. Nothing seems different.

Except he gradually starts drinking too much.

Only belatedly does he realize that after Jiang Xu left, a hole opened up in his heart.

As time goes by, it grows larger and larger, and no amount of alcohol can fill it.

He goes to great lengths to find Jiang Xu's address, only to see a man under a tree tying a scarf around her neck. They're clearly intimate.

The sight is so painful that he nearly grinds his teeth to dust.

She wants to disappear from his world? No chance.

*

They officially meet again at a banquet.

She treats him like a threat, avoiding him at all costs and leaving early.

Gu Jing corners her at her front door. "Why did you leave without a word back then?"

Jiang Xu: "We were just having fun. Why take it seriously?"

To outsiders, Gu Jing is the undisputed winner in life, a heaven-blessed prodigy. He can either inherit a leading corporation or become one of Nuwa's finest creations.

Only his close friend Zhou Qi knows that Gu Jing is a genuine lunatic under all that glamour.

When he sees Gu Jing show up uninvited at Jiang Xu and Shen Qinghe's engagement party, he knows the guy is up to no good.

But even he can't imagine that Gu Jing will play an intimate recording of himself and Jiang Xu in front of a hall full of guests.

Moans, growls, and the most tantalizing ten seconds, ending abruptly after they call each other's names...

The banquet descends into chaos.

Later, in a deserted corner, Gu Jing, wearing a handprint on his face, leans close to Jiang Xu's ear with a smile. "Don't forget, we have a child together."

"In this life and the next, you won't ever get rid of me."

Mild-mannered good girl vs. obsessive playboy

A melodramatic romance

She runs away while pregnant

A terrible man's true love

The powerful one bows his head; the meek one stands firm

Theme: Love