Marrying Up for Status? The Reborn Sweetheart Stops Pursuing Him, and He Goes Mad

[Male Leads with No Past Relationships + Age-Gap Push and Pull] As the eldest daughter of the Zhao family's second wife, Zhao Fuyin was doted on and cherished as she grew up. In the eyes of outsiders, she was a high-maintenance rose with thorns, hard to approach. Someone in the know sneered, “No matter how precious she is, she's still just a pawn her mother uses to secure her position through marriage. Do you think Mr. Lou would give her a proper place?” In her previous life, she fell for Lou Zhiyan. No matter what others said about her being unworthy of the man who led the Lou family, she still followed him around like a little puppy. Unfortunately, a marriage won through scheming could hardly be called a happy one. Lou Zhiyan felt no affection for her, but was gentle in his words: “I'll take responsibility. I won't love you.” It was a shame they couldn't be passionately in love, but she thought that a respectful marriage would be nice too. Accepting that love has flaws was the beginning of happiness. Then, in a car accident, just before she lost consciousness, Zhao Fuyin received one last message: a sweet photo of Lou Zhiyan spending time with someone else. It came with a caption: [You only managed to win him over because of the bond you had as childhood friends.] Dazed, she wondered: Love has flaws, sure, but was this flaw a meteor crater or the East African Rift? When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn before the wedding. Zhao Fuyin thought that perhaps she shouldn't cling to the wrong person. - Later, Zhao Fuyin devotes herself to managing the family hotel. With money in hand, she has nothing to worry about, and she even starts dating and getting to know a refined young gentleman. Lou Zhiyan watches as the man's arm rests politely around her slender waist, his handsome face cold and dark as a frozen abyss. In a dim private room, he grips Zhao Fuyin's wrist and asks in a gentle, restrained voice, “Xiao Fu, when you told me to wait for you to come back before you left the country, was it so I could watch you being all lovey-dovey with other men?”