A warmhearted, flirtatious ballet student x a brooding, powerful man who rose from nothing
Rekindled love + possessive pursuit
[No matter how graceful the swan's dance, she can never escape the hunter's grasp.]
Ming Manxi is the brightest white swan at the dance academy. Born into wealth, she has countless admirers,
but she falls in love with a poor student.
One midsummer day, she runs into him outside the practice room.
The man is wearing an old shirt and flipping through a thick finance textbook as he passes by.
His features are stern and his manner distant, like a mountain too high to climb.
On a whim, she rises onto her toes and hooks a finger around his trouser leg.
“Working so hard, classmate?”
He looks up, his deep eyes reflecting her radiant smile...
At the time, she doesn't know he's the heir to a powerful family who was cast out, lying low for years just to reclaim what belongs to him.
They meet again at a family banquet hosted by the Li family.
She has her arm linked with her fiancé's, but when she looks up, she meets eyes as deep as an abyss.
The man is dressed in a tailored suit, elegant and aloof, his gaze like a blade as it passes over her inch by inch.
“Xi Xi, this is my uncle,” her fiancé says with a smile.
She sits on pins and needles, almost losing her composure,
but he only curls his lips in a calm smile, and, in wordless agreement, says nothing about their past.
Later, the Li family falls into crisis. Her fiancé loses everything, goes bankrupt, and breaks off their engagement in disgrace.
Everyone sighs that the Ming family's heiress has lost her backing and will never enjoy her former glory.
What they don't know is that, late at night in the villa,
she is pinned firmly against the window, wrapped in a shirt.
His hot, ragged breaths brush her neck as he smiles languidly.
“You flirted with me and ran off back then. Still think you can escape now?”
Her eyes are red as she pushes him away, weariness filling her brows and eyes after the passion fades.
“From now on, you have only two choices.”
His thumb rubs over her soft lips.
“Stay in my arms, or let him... meet his end at my hands.”
Reading Guide:
Age gap / rekindled love / intense push and pull / swoony, satisfying romance
The hero rises from nothing, and the heroine is ultimately adored like a queen. They are each other's only one, body and heart.
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Theme: Finding a way out of adversity
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Bright by Day, Bewitching by Night [Female Secret Identity]
Ten Dreams Come True
Love, Love, and the Stars