A Long-Coming Stirring of the Heart

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On the night of her engagement, Xie Wanling's fiancée cheated on her, then kicked her out of the hotel, leaving her with nowhere to go.

On the roadside in the rain, the window of a black Rolls-Royce rolled down, revealing a cool, aristocratic face.

She called out, “Auntie.”

But the woman wasn't her aunt. She was the aunt of her fiancée, Lu Cheng: Lu Mingyi.

Lu Mingyi glanced at her and said flatly, “If you can't marry into the Lu family, you'll be the laughingstock of the whole city tomorrow.”

But how could she still marry Lu Cheng? Was she supposed to let her wife dote on her mistress right in front of her after they married?

Her eyes were red-rimmed. The woman in the car stepped out and brushed her icy fingertips over the corner of Xie Wanling's eye.

“Lu Cheng isn't the only unmarried person in the Lu family.”

“There's also the woman standing right in front of you.”

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Lu Mingyi held immense power in Hong Kong, and her authority was formidable. Even though Xie Wanling had once saved her life, she wouldn't dare overstep.

She assumed marrying Lu Mingyi was just a way to repay her. But people in their circle mocked her for entering a sham marriage, taunting her with, “How does it feel to spend the night alone?”

Xie Wanling rubbed her aching waist, remembering Lu Mingyi's embrace growing hotter and hotter the night before.

It had kept her trapped all night.

“Mingyi's so clingy. If anything, I'm too hot.”

After saying that, she saw Lu Cheng walk by with a dark expression and deliberately stopped her. “Where are your manners? You see an elder and don't even call me Auntie?”

Xie Wanling carefully borrowed Lu Mingyi's authority to throw her weight around, until one day she stumbled upon a secret.

It turned out Lu Mingyi had orchestrated Lu Cheng's affair.

And as for Xie Wanling...

It turned out Lu Mingyi had fallen for her at first sight and had been plotting to win her over for a long time.

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Reader's Guide:

1. A setting where same-sex marriage is legal. Marriage first, love later. A beautiful, kind-hearted painter x a cold, sharp-tongued CEO. Eleven-year age gap. The sweet romance belongs to the two women; Lu Cheng gets the groveling arc.

2. Women can be powerful, too. Extreme comments will be deleted.

Theme: Opportunity favors the prepared