Secret Kisses in Broad Daylight

Zhixia had always followed the rules and done everything her parents wanted. Except for kissing Zhou Huaiting and becoming his secret lover. Looking back on her first twenty years, she considered herself generally fortunate and blessed. She had grown up safe and healthy in an orphanage until the age of five, when the wealthy and powerful Zhou family adopted her, turning her into the heiress everyone else saw. The only flaw was that the Zhou family's eldest young master seemed to dislike her. Zhixia had always been afraid of him and kept her distance. Until that night, when he bent down and kissed her. After that night, everything spiraled in a direction neither of them could control. The night their secret was exposed, Zhixia left the country. The rain was pouring that night, and her flight was delayed by three hours. The boundless world outside seemed to be undergoing a grand cleansing. Their friends all knew Zhou Huaiting had a secret lover, but apparently they had broken up, and it seemed he was the one who had been dumped. He never left dinner early anymore, and when he drank, he got drunk without anyone having to persuade him. Everyone was curious about what kind of girl could have such an effect on him. Then one day, years later, Zhixia came back... For the first time in years, Zhou Huaiting left a gathering early. When everyone learned that the girl was from his own family, they cursed him as a bastard. He accepted the insult cheerfully and gave a self-mocking smile. “I really am a bastard.” Back home, he dragged Zhixia into the room where they had once met in secret. “Your boyfriend?” He lowered his head and kissed her, his breathing heavy. “Then what am I?”