A Heart Still Clear After the Storm

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Blurb: [30% of the novel is locked]

Staying under the same roof | Reunion after years apart | The ex chases his wife through hell

Yu Ji was famous in the industry for her cool, striking beauty.

She was gorgeous yet aloof, as if untouched by the world. Countless people had pursued her, but everyone said she was like a piece of jade that could never be warmed.

When she was eighteen, her parents went bankrupt and her family fell apart, leaving her a fallen heiress.

She moved into the Jin household and spent several years living under someone else's roof, becoming Jin Qiyun's most closely guarded secret.

Jin Qiyun, the Jin family's second son.

He was brilliant and dazzling, a born favorite in everyone's eyes.

People said he was chaste and self-controlled, with no interest in women.

Only Yu Ji knew how skilled he was at putting on an act.

His desires ran deep. On those intoxicating nights, he was like an addict,

almost addicted to her.

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Yu Ji once had a secret relationship with him.

Back then, she thought Jin Qiyun had two faces.

By day, he treated her with cold distance. At night, he was always tender with her, even whispering sweet nothings when passion took hold.

But she rarely took him seriously.

She knew he would never love her, and that sooner or later she would leave.

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She knew Jin Qiyun couldn't hold his liquor and almost never drank.

But on the night she'd saved enough money to pay off her debts and planned to pack her bags and leave, she ran into Jin Qiyun in the living room, visibly drunk.

His eyes were hazy as he wrapped his arms around her from behind, his languid, tipsy voice brushing her ear. "Could you please not leave me?"

Yu Ji's heart skipped a beat.

This time, and only this time, she believed him.

Until later, when she heard that Jin Qiyun's long-hidden first love had finally appeared.

She also heard that the Jin family was very pleased with "her" and planned to discuss their marriage.

So Yu Ji walked away without hesitation and left the country without a word.

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Years later, they met again.

That year, two major stories rocked the film industry.

The first was that an award-winning actress who had retired at the height of her career several years earlier had returned to the screen.

And the first thing she did after her comeback was star in a new film for an obscure director.

The second was that, not long after the first story broke, an anonymous tycoon offered an astronomical investment.

His sole condition was that he be allowed to meet the leading lady in person.

The night Yu Ji agreed to see Jin Qiyun, she deliberately let him see the ring on her left ring finger.

Only when he saw how indifferent she was, how little she loved him, did he finally realize that the rumors about her cold, heartless nature were true as well.

She had once laid her heart bare before him.

But all of it had long since sunk into the depths of time.

Reader's guide:

1. One-on-one romance / both leads are each other's first / happy ending

2. The characters aren't perfect. They all have flaws.

Theme: Persevere and strive for self-improvement.