The Cold-Faced Tycoon Seems World-Weary in Public, but Draws Her Into His Arms in Private

A poor, resilient country girl who always does as she's told VS a brooding, world-weary, unhinged young master Older man + marriage before love + intense push and pull + mutual salvation + his long road to winning her back Her parents accepted a hundred thousand yuan in bride price from an elderly widower and planned to marry Ji Zhaohe off to him. As she fled, she ran into a wealthy matriarch who had come to the mountains to choose a wife for her grandson. Ji Zhaohe pushed open the door and volunteered herself. “Could it be me?” She was taken away, relieved to have been rescued, not knowing she had stepped into another abyss. The Lu family's young master suffered from a hidden ailment and was brooding and world-weary. The first time he saw Ji Zhaohe, he looked at her with utter disgust. “Get out! I don't need a woman!” But later, everyone at school knew that the brooding, world-weary young master of the Lu family braved all kinds of weather to pick his wife up from school every single day, right on time. To give Ji Zhaohe a normal married life, Lu Chenzhou began treatment. But once Ji Zhaohe was no longer useful, the Lu family threw her out. Eyes red, she asked, “Lu Chenzhou, did you ever love me?” Lu Chenzhou smiled cruelly. “Being married to you for two years is the stain on my life.” She turned and walked away. He collapsed to the ground, coughing up blood. Two years later. She had become a renowned jewelry designer, and there was someone else by her side. In a dim stairwell, he pinned her against the wall. “Ji Zhaohe, you're mine! You were mine before, you are mine now, and you'll never escape me in this lifetime!” Later, Mr. Lu, who had always looked down on everyone, knelt before the woman in front of a room full of guests. “Zhaohe, just look at me... Take pity on me, if nothing else.”