After My Cool Childhood Friend Abandoned Me

[Main Story Complete, Bonus Chapters Updating~]

Liu Xiyue and Xie Lanchuan grew up together, their affection deep and their families long having approved of their match.

But disaster struck. Xie Lanchuan was gravely injured protecting her and fell into a coma.

When he awoke, he was still the same gentle, refined gentleman, yet he had forgotten how to love her.

In little more than a month, he suddenly grew cold and distant. "I can't keep holding you back. You should find a gentleman who truly loves you."

By a twist of fate, a young lady from another family saved his life at the cost of her own, just as he had once done for her. She watched helplessly as he began to feel indebted to that young lady.

Now that he no longer knew how to love, perhaps guilt would bind him even more tightly. Then, one day, she saw him enjoying a carefree boat ride on the lake with that young lady.

Just like that, he lightly cast her into the murky past.

Later, she fell and stubbornly insisted that someone fetch him to help her. A servant reported that he was with the woman who had saved his life.

She waited until her blood had congealed, waited until dawn, but he never came.

That night was so cold, just like his heart. She decided to grant his wish and set him free. Her family pressed her to marry before him. She refused, and she couldn't bear to see how grand his wedding day would be. So she packed her things, kept it secret from everyone, and quietly left.

Xie Lanchuan heard that the Liu family was looking for a match for her. There were newly risen officials and young gentlemen from established clans, all from good families.

He had already held her back, so this was only right. But why did his heart ache so badly when he saw her boating on the lake with another man?

They met again at a spring banquet. Liu Xiyue accidentally took a drug with a sinister effect and staggered into an empty hall to hide. Hearing someone follow her, she spun around and found him there.

She used the last of her strength to shut the door. Her voice was shrill. "Don't come any closer!"

Her voice trembling, she said, "Please, Young Master Xie, help me find someone. Jing Lin at Yumen Pass, or your kinsman Xie Hengzhi, would do."

Young Master Xie? He froze.

"Why do you need someone?" he heard himself ask quietly.

But she didn't answer. Instead, he heard her helpless sobs, which sounded almost like a songbird's cry.

Xie Lanchuan's hand froze on the door. He clenched it into a fist, then suddenly smiled.

Either of them would do, but he wouldn't?

Both are virgins. The male lead is a hopeless romantic, but after a head injury, he becomes a hopeless romantic with bizarre behavior.

[Little Scene]

Xie Lanchuan returned tipsy around midnight, but the lights in their bedroom were already out.

The Grand Secretary, who had always valued his wife more than his own life, actually dared to pick a fight with her.

"Why don't you care about me? I've come home late twice this month. Why didn't you hit me?"

Xie Lanchuan's phoenix eyes were bloodshot, his grievance plain. "You didn't ask who was at the banquet or whether there were any young ladies there. I came home late, and you didn't even hit me. Yue'er, you don't love me anymore."

Liu Xiyue laughed and chided him softly. "Stop fussing and go to sleep."

Xie Lanchuan stared fixedly at her. Tears slid down his stern, dignified face. Before Liu Xiyue could be alarmed, he loudly ordered the servants, "Bring the family punishment whip and give it to Madam!"

Then he swept his robe aside and sat on the floor, stubbornly closing his eyes and gritting his teeth. "Don't try to placate me. If you don't give me an explanation today, I'm not going to sleep!"

Coming Soon: The Third Year of Marriage

Cold-blooded madman vs. bright and sincere girl

Xie Heyu and Liu Hanzhu were childhood friends who grew up together. Xie Heyu had no parents, and even the most wretched stray dog in the village dared to bite him. He swore he would claw his way to the top.

Liu Hanzhu's family scraped food from their own mouths to raise him. Her parents arranged a childhood betrothal for the two of them. A fever had left Liu Hanzhu a little simple-minded when she was young, and she was guileless and straightforward. But she took the betrothal seriously, and when she looked at Xie Heyu again, she found her feelings had changed.

Xie Heyu came first in the imperial examinations and enjoyed a smooth official career. The Grand Tutor's household sought to win him over, and the Chancellor was also interested in taking him as a son-in-law. He was wondering who could help him rise to the very top of the court.

Then, one day, Liu Hanzhu came to find him, her eyes full of confusion as she asked why he still hadn't married her.

He stared at her in silence for a long while, then married her as she wished. The wedding was grand, and she was overjoyed. But that very night, he tossed her a divorce agreement.

"I can ensure your family lives in wealth and comfort, with enough to last for generations. In three years, you will leave."

Liu Hanzhu was heartbroken and stunned. "I came here to build a life with you!"

But Xie Heyu's face was full of scorn. "When your family saved me, wasn't this what you wanted in return?"

Liu Hanzhu sat alone on the bridal bed all night, weeping as the dates tasted bitter in her mouth. She truly wanted to build a life with him. Why wouldn't he believe her?

After they married, he treated her with full respect in public, but barely spoke to her in private. Liu Hanzhu refused to give up. Her father said she was a ball of fire, and that she could warm even a stone!

By their third year of marriage, she happened to hear the Chancellor ask him how much better it would have been if he had married into the Chancellor's family.

She heard him reply in a calm voice, "I regret it too."

Liu Hanzhu's heart shattered. Her face felt cold, and only then did she realize she was crying. She no longer wanted to build a life with him.

Just then, her cousin returned to the capital. He had become a young general! He invited her to the borderlands to clear her head, and she decided to go with him.

Her cousin gave her a wooden box containing a travel permit, money, and a bottle of pills.

Xie Heyu noticed that Liu Hanzhu had changed. She no longer waited by the door, looking eagerly for him. She no longer pestered him to move out of his study, either. Even the nourishing soup she made every other day had stopped.

At the spring banquet, he watched from the shadows as his wife gently held the Chancellor's daughter and sincerely apologized. "It was wrong of me to take your match. Don't cry. I'll give him back to you."

Behind the strange rock, Xie Heyu smiled.

Did she not know that husband and wife could never be parted, not even by death?

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