The Spoiling Principle

Jin Yuncheng, the only son of the wealthy Jin family and heir to a fortune worth hundreds of billions, is proud, rebellious, and spoiled, with a domineering, nasty disposition.

Everyone in high society keeps their distance, afraid of upsetting the eccentric young master by saying or doing the wrong thing.

Ji Xinran, the adopted daughter of the wealthy Ji family, is gentle and compliant, always cautious and never overstepping.

No one knows that she and Jin Yuncheng are secretly close. She is the only one who can handle him, and the only one he indulges and obeys without question.

For the sake of marrying Ji Xinran, Jin Yuncheng willingly accepts his family's arrangement to study abroad, planning to return and take over the family business.

On the eve of his departure, he settles Ji Xinran on his lap and kisses her flushed, dazed lips again and again. His arms tighten around her soft waist, his voice luring and low.

"You really won't come with me?"

"Can you stand being here alone?"

After she promises to visit him every month and keep in touch by video, Jin Yuncheng rests his chin on her head, a satisfied smile on his lips. He fails to notice the fleeting fear in the eyes of the seemingly obedient girl in his arms.

*

Just one month after Jin Yuncheng leaves the country, Ji Xinran cuts off contact with him.

On the big screen, footage shows the girl speaking with Old Master Jin.

"I helped persuade him to go abroad and study. If possible, please make him stay a little longer."

"Yes, sometimes he's... rather frightening, and he causes me trouble."

"Please, Grandpa."

Jin Yuncheng watches the girl's face on the screen in silence, his expression impossible to read.

After a long while, he lets out a soft, scornful laugh.

*

He does not return home until five years later. The once rebellious young master who refused to be controlled has become the youngest person ever to take the reins of the Jin Group.

Rain lashes the car windows as he pins the woman he has longed for against the seat, kissing away her tears. He reins in his temper and murmurs, "Cry a little quieter! Who's going to get their marriage license with swollen eyes?"

Ji Xinran cannot stop crying. "I don't want to marry you... You're a creep!"

Jin Yuncheng laughs and whispers in her ear, "So you're done pretending, baby? You're afraid of me, aren't you?"

"You'll just have to put up with it. From now on, you can't leave your husband for even a moment."

"Not until you love me with all your heart."

◆ Both are virgins, one-on-one romance

◆ Sweet-tempered, obedient girl × clingy, love-struck man with an insatiable need for affection

Coming soon: Qing Xiang

Before they went public, nobody connected Lin Yuzhen with Wen Zhao.

The ordinary girl who was practically unknown at school and the eldest young master of a top-tier wealthy family had actually been a couple for a long time.

Lin Yuzhen has occasional aphasia, finds it difficult to speak, and has always been half a beat slower to react. She is used to relying on Wen Zhao for everything.

Wen Zhao enjoys her dependence. He strokes her cheek, pleased, and draws her into his arms. "You don't have to know how to talk, Zhenzhen. Just ask your boyfriend for anything you need."

He announces their relationship to the world. From then on, to everyone else, she goes from "that girl who can't speak clearly" to "Young Master Wen's little girlfriend."

Wen Zhao is very, very good to her.

He gives her jewelry and a mansion, holds her close as he coaxes and kisses her tenderly, and kneels on one knee in the back of the luxury car he bought her, as if proposing, while savoring the flowers and dew. He wipes the glistening wetness from the bridge of his nose with the hem of her skirt.

Wen Zhao is very, very bad to her.

He never lets Lin Yuzhen know that only kittens and puppies can go their whole lives without speaking.

After he once again tricks her language rehabilitation lesson into a passionate encounter that leaves her mind utterly blank, Lin Yuzhen disappears from his world.

*

Years after they part, in a lecture hall at the country's most prestigious university.

The suited man in the back row has been attending the lectures for a week straight.

Elegant and refined, with exquisitely handsome features, he has gone from Young Master Wen to President Wen, but is just as eye-catching as ever.

But in Lin Yuzhen's classroom, she is the focus.

He is merely "the man who often comes to Professor Lin's lectures," "one of Professor Lin's suitors," and "the handsome poor guy who can never get Professor Lin to have a meal with him."

After class, Lin Yuzhen walks past the Maybach parked by the roadside without looking at it.

The car door opens, and she is pulled into the back seat, falling into a strong embrace.

"Zhenzhen, my patience is limited."

The man's lowered voice sounds above her. He has grown much steadier over the years, but the moment he holds her, he remembers the frivolous, insolent boy he used to be.

"If you won't go on a date with me today, then we'll stay right here," he says. The arm locked around her waist leaves no room for refusal. He greedily breathes in her scent, his nose brushing her earlobe as he speaks each word distinctly. "And relive the past."

◆ Both are virgins, one-on-one romance

◆ Gentle, slow-witted woman × controlling man with an insatiable appetite

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