Mrs. Gu, You've Crossed the Line

[Cool-headed, poised ex-wife and CEO's wife x brash, fussy mistress who falls for her on her own]

In the fifth year of her marriage to Gu Yanzhi, Nan Sheng became the "old furniture" he found utterly boring. Five years without a child, her beauty fading and his love cooling, she quietly kept up the hollow facade of being Mrs. Gu, only for her husband to hand her divorce papers himself. And then there was the girl hanging off Gu Yanzhi's arm, her bright eyes and youthful beauty on full display: Chu Ran.

Chu Ran looked at her and smiled like a little peacock who had won: "Sister Nan Sheng, Yanzhi says there's been no love between you for a long time. Why not leave with some dignity?"

Everyone was waiting to watch Nan Sheng fall apart in humiliation. Instead, she calmly signed her name, pinned up her silky black hair, and walked away with her back straight, never looking back.

When they met again, she still wore her long, dramatic, jet-black hair, but it was no longer a symbol of docility kept for anyone's sake. Her red dress trailed along the ground, and a cool, sharp edge glinted in her eyes. She was an impossible-to-ignore name in the emerging art world, and her ex-husband's most dazzling and most troublesome business partner (or rival).

The people who once mocked her were stunned. Her ex-husband, who had once overlooked her, watched her with growing interest and felt the first stirrings of regret.

But the most flustered of all was Chu Ran. She had taken the coveted position of Mrs. Gu, yet it felt as if she were living in a beautiful, icy show home. She couldn't find any warmth Nan Sheng had left behind, yet Nan Sheng's shadow was everywhere. She began to lose control of herself, chasing after the other woman's every move. Watching her negotiate with lazy ease, one hand brushing the ends of her hair. Watching her slightly tipsy, long hair slipping over her shoulder in breathtakingly rich beauty. Even watching her smile at someone else, and feeling that inexplicably sharp stab of pain in her own heart, the one called jealousy.

Chu Ran: "Nan Sheng! You went to all this trouble to show up here because you want to get Yanzhi's attention, don't you?"

Nan Sheng (casually winding a strand of hair around her finger, her eyes skimming Chu Ran's tense face): "Mrs. Gu, you seem to spend more time watching me than watching your husband."

#We said we'd just steal a man. How did I end up losing my own heart too?# #She turned my world around, then asked if I liked the view# #An ex's revenge? No, we tore down the crematorium and built my rose garden there, then stole his new wife on the way out#

[Reading guide]:

1. Two female leads, Nan Sheng x Chu Ran, with a clear pairing. The ex-husband gets a massive chasing-his-wife-after-the-breakup arc, but he's just a background character whose ashes have already been scattered.

2. An unconventional comeback story: 100 ways to steal the mistress away.

3. The heroine is cool and beautiful, with long hair. She holds back at first, then becomes the pinnacle of charm and dominates every scene.

4. The fussy mistress falls for her while convincing herself it's all her own idea. A sweet-and-sour romance.

Theme: The supporting female character awakens