Unspoken [Reunion After Years Apart]

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Stubborn x restrained [Please add it to your library] 80% anti-piracy protection

Rekindled love / Reunited at the start / Coercive possession / Height difference / The ex begs for her back

Years later, Ji Yan saw Liao Qing again, one night while waiting for her best friend to finish work so they could go home together.

By then, Liao Qing had become an untouchable figure in L City. Everyone who spoke of him respectfully called him Mr. Liao.

Ji Yan, meanwhile, was an obscure comic artist, one of the countless nobodies in her field.

After a long, tiring day, Ji Yan waited in the hotel lobby, which had been specially decorated for the occasion. Standing there for so long made her restless. By the time her best friend finally came out, her calves were already beginning to ache.

The hangover soup she'd brought hadn't been enough to save her friend. She could only support the drunken woman while occasionally bending down to rub her calves.

Then they left.

The last person to come out glanced at the spot where Ji Yan had just been standing, his gaze light as a feather, before looking away.

The next day, when Ji Yan was waiting for her friend in the lobby again, she noticed two sofas had been added.

She thought for a moment, then turned and went outside, sitting in an inconspicuous corner of the steps.

*

Liao Qing received a message telling him he had to leave early.

As the car pulled out of the parking lot, he glanced to the side and caught sight of a solitary, slender figure at the edge of his vision.

The car window rolled back up. He forced himself to look away.

*

Ji Yan sat on the steps playing Happy Match, oblivious as a car drove up.

The night breeze was a little chilly, but she didn't notice at all.

Only when a coat was draped over her did she look up in surprise.

Liao Qing crouched down to meet her eyes and took away the phone still cheering, "Unbelievable!"

He gave a self-mocking smile. "Ji Yan, does Happy Match deserve more of your attention than I do?"

*

Ji Yan froze for a moment, then politely smiled and took back her phone. "Mr. Liao, the past is best left unspoken, and old acquaintances shouldn't cross paths again. Those are the rules."

She stood and returned his coat. "You're the one who taught me those rules, Mr. Liao."

Liao Qing refused to take it, so Ji Yan let go.

The coat fell to the ground, and its brooch struck the floor with a clear chime.

Ji Yan knew that sound all too well.

It was exactly like the sound the ring made when he threw it to the ground, after she'd spent a month making it by hand.

*

/I have many things I cannot control, but loving you was my own choice./

/Let the past remain unspoken; old acquaintances should not cross paths again.

Mr. Liao, I stopped loving you long ago./

Stubborn x restrained

(2025.5.9)

"Reading Guide"

[Important note] The male lead is sexually inexperienced, no matter what his circumstances or status might be. He's definitely inexperienced T^T

Also, there is deception, escape, groveling, and cruelty. Well... it's a mixed bag.

Here's a historical romance I'm saving for later:

Hardheaded girl x sinister man [Starts March or April 2026]

Coercive possession / Love and hate / Stealing someone's partner

Feng Chun transmigrates into a chaotic age. To stay alive, she disguises herself as a man and hides deep in the mountains, keeping to herself and seeing no one for half a year.

To avoid trouble, she minds her own business and keeps quiet. When she comes across a man in danger on the road, she coldly pretends not to see him.

But to her surprise, that wild man grabs her by the ankle. She screams in fright, attracting bandits, and the two of them are captured.

When the wild man comes to, he apologizes. Her heart softens, and she treats his wounds that night.

Later, they learn that the bandits had gone out in force that day, raiding three villages. The men were taken as laborers, while all the women were forced into prostitution.

Feng Chun is terrified out of her wits and vows to keep up her male disguise at all costs. She must not let anyone discover who she is.

The wild man kindly helps her improve her disguise, and they successfully fool the bandits.

Feng Chun thinks that if she can just hold out, she'll be fine. The wild man also says he'll find a way for them both to escape. But one spring night, the second-in-command traps her on horseback, wrapping his arms tightly around her waist and murmuring close to her ear:

"Are you going to take off that chest binder yourself, or should I do it for you?"

Feng Chun is so frightened that she bursts into tears, hoping to win herself a little room to negotiate. Her tears are so affecting that the second-in-command gives in, allowing her to wash up the next day before they sleep together.

But the next day, the bandit stronghold is breached. With the flames soaring around her, Feng Chun seizes her chance and escapes through a window.

The wild man she left behind and the second-in-command, who arrived a moment too late, exchange a dark, icy glare.

Jiang Xingxue is a genius of rare talent, admired by the late emperor. After the new emperor takes the throne, he is framed, falls from a cliff, and nearly dies.

Fortunately, a woman rescues him and feeds him, giving him warm water to drink. He resolves to repay her, but she runs away when he destroys the bandit stronghold.

He gazes at the still-trembling window and thinks in a low voice: If she has escaped safely and can live in peace from now on, then I can rest easy.

But when they meet again, she is trapped in a desperate situation...

Xiao Weicheng is known to be ruthless. After helping the new emperor take the throne, his sole thorn in his side is Jiang Xingxue. They meet at Death's Edge Cliff. Jiang Xingxue dies, while Xiao Weicheng is badly wounded.

To protect the state of affairs, he disguises himself and becomes the second-in-command of Clearwind Stronghold. He intends to lie low and wait for his chance, but unexpectedly finds Jiang Xingxue in the stronghold, destitute, along with the clever, quick-witted young woman disguised as a man at his side.

He thinks that before killing Jiang Xingxue, it might be fun to stage a coercive romance, tearing the lovers apart and taking the girl for himself.

Later, he tastes the sweet fruit, and even when he is covered in blood from its thorns, he refuses to let go.

In the middle of the night, in bed, he grips her throat, snaps the dagger she thrusts at him, and grits out,

"Jiang Xingxue has been dead for ages. You will always be mine."

Short version:

After transmigrating, Luo Fengchun meets two men.

One becomes her lover.

The other kills her lover.

[He killed her lover and then forced her to love him]

Theme: Choose what you stand for and what you refuse to do