He Doesn't Have to Be a Widower Anymore

- Both leads are each other's first love, and the male lead is faithful. The author doesn't write unchaste men.

Zhu Ping'an died on her twenty-fourth birthday.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a completely unfamiliar place: a cramped, narrow bedroom, damp, mottled walls, and the stench of rotting garbage from the sewer constantly assaulting her nose.

She had transmigrated into a book.

After transmigrating, she couldn't remember the plot and was saddled with the original owner's enormous debt. Blacklisted from the industry, she couldn't find a job no matter how hard she tried. One setback after another left her disheartened.

That was when a man named Lin Yuanshan offered her a helping hand.

Lin Yuanshan was blessed by heaven in both looks and physique. But even more dazzling than his appearance was his family background.

Born into a wealthy family, he had also built a vast business empire in just a few years. In a place as decadent as Ning City, where "a brick thrown into the air could hit five newly rich people and three old-money heirs," Lin Yuanshan's status was still beyond the reach of every young master.

Everyone envied Lin Yuanshan, and everyone feared him. They said he was a walking iceberg, cold-blooded, severe, and ruthless to everyone.

After getting to know him, Zhu Ping'an sighed. He wasn't an iceberg at all, but a volcano that had lain dormant for years and was about to erupt.

Lin Yuanshan treasured her, taking care of her in every way and giving her everything she wanted.

Just as Zhu Ping'an finally decided to lose herself completely in this happy dream, Lin Yuanshan's younger brother shattered her illusions.

He told her that his brother had a deeply cherished White Moonlight, and Zhu Ping'an was nothing but a substitute to keep him company.

A ray of sunshine had once briefly lingered in Lin Yuanshan's dim life.

She had appeared without warning, stirred up a storm in his life, then left without a word.

Strangely, no one but him remembered her.

After teaching him how to love again, she cast him aside like trash, leaving him alone in a prison called "memories."

Just when he thought he would spend the rest of his life alone, bound to his past, she appeared again.

Only, she seemed not to know him at all.

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- Spoiled heiress x aloof beauty she forcibly plucks from his high perch

- The male lead's first love, and he stays chaste throughout; the female lead's status is undecided

Rekindled love | Coercive pursuit (gender-swapped version) | Groveling to win her back | Male rivals in a battle royale

Su Yunwei is a gorgeous, ruthless nepo baby with the most enviable looks and family background by society's standards.

But after living too long amid insincere compliments and sycophantic flattery, she has become a numb, hollow person.

She hasn't felt a genuine emotional stir in a very, very long time.

After another sleepless night, Su Yunwei, hungover, went to a convenience store to buy hangover medicine. When she opened the plastic bag, she found a piece of candy tucked at the bottom.

She vaguely remembered that the cashier she'd just seen was Jiang Yubai, the campus heartthrob who was a permanent fixture on the school's confession board.

Jiang Yubai and Su Yunwei were polar opposites. He was a top student who worked hard, always disciplined and ambitious, always calm and composed.

Classmates and teachers alike praised him to the skies. He was gentle and modest, courteous and proper, a perfect gentleman with no flaws to pick at.

His only shortcoming was his humble background. His parents had died young, and he had a sick grandmother to care for.

But that gave Su Yunwei just the opportunity she needed.

It would surely be fun to pluck such a radiant, untouchable flower and keep him in her palm.

Playing with the candy in her hand, Su Yunwei smiled sincerely for the first time in a long while.

Jiang Yubai had once been the model student praised by teachers and classmates. Later, he became a tech tycoon who rose to prominence out of nowhere.

Only he knew that he had always been Su Yunwei's abandoned dog.

After six years adrift, he returned to the city. Without realizing it, he found himself at the convenience store where they had first met, and spotted a familiar car slowly pulling up by the road.

It was a Rolls-Royce Phantom studded with pink diamonds, the nineteenth-birthday gift Su Yunwei's father, the head of Guangying International, had given her. It was the only one of its kind in Jiang City.

They had once shared many tender, passionate moments inside it.

The car door opened, and a handsome young university student stepped out.

He was just as good-looking and graceful, just as talented, and even came from the same kind of poor background.

No one knew this character type better than Jiang Yubai.

More importantly, he was younger than Jiang Yubai now.

He looked only eighteen or nineteen, the same age Jiang Yubai had been when he first met Su Yunwei.

Theme: Strong winds reveal which grass can withstand them