Sweet Swamp [Rekindled Romance]

[Updates at 9 p.m. | Reunited after a breakup | Secret love comes true | Living under the same roof]

[Beautiful, unruly heiress x refined, gloomy poor boy]

1.

Jingshi No. 1 High School had two famous figures.

Yan Xi, the Yan family's heiress, danced with graceful elegance and traded on her beauty. She was the object of affection for countless boys experiencing their first crush.

Jiang Huaixu, the top student in the grade, had refined features and a cool, distant air. He was revered as an untouchable flower on a mountaintop.

Their family backgrounds and social standing were worlds apart. They seemed like parallel lines that would never meet, with not the slightest connection between them.

But no one knew that they lived under the same roof.

Jiang Huaixu was mired in the sweet swamp called Yan Xi, unable to save himself.

He secretly collected the strands of hair she left on her pillow, couldn't bring himself to wash the coat she'd worn, and even carefully treasured the hair tie she accidentally dropped on the floor.

By chance, Yan Xi stumbled upon the boy's secret.

"You... like me?"

Jiang Huaixu pressed his thin lips together and slowly nodded, awaiting judgment.

Don't be afraid.

Don't run away.

Don't hate me.

On the day they finished the college entrance exam, the two became a couple.

Jiang Huaixu pulled Yan Xi into his arms and clumsily kissed the corner of her lips, his voice trembling with restraint.

"Yan Xi, you're mine."

"You can't abandon me, and you can't like anyone else."

The girl hooked an arm around the back of the boy's neck and smiled as she agreed.

Later, she went back on her word.

2.

Years later, they met again. Jiang Huaixu had become a tycoon worth over a hundred million.

As they passed each other, his gaze swept over her indifferently without lingering for even half a second.

Not long after, someone asked, "Mr. Jiang, the banquet has only just started. Are you already in a hurry to go home?"

Jiang Huaixu lifted his wineglass and took a small sip. From the corner of his eye, he watched the slender figure fleeing, dark currents seemingly churning in his gaze.

"Mm. I'm going to pick up my cat."

"She's been away from home too long. I'm afraid she won't find her way back."

On a stormy night, darkness swallowed the view, and Yan Xi was trapped on the bed.

The air in the room was hot and damp. Heavy breaths fell beside her ear, one after another.

In the hazy moonlight, she saw the man's clothes soaked through, the veins bulging along his arms, and his dark eyes filled with crazed devotion.

"Xixi, how could you treat me like this?"

"Xixi, tell me you love me. Tell me you want me. Tell me you'll never leave me."

[In the days without her, he guarded the room full of sweet memories all alone, longing for the day she would turn back.]

*Both leads are each other's first and only. The male lead has a secret crush.

*No intimate behavior while underage, and no bankruptcy plotline.

2025.07.20

Theme: Learn to love others, but learn to love yourself, too.