Wildfire Beneath the Surface

Everyone in Jingdu said Cen Shuang was unwanted trash, abandoned at the Zhou family home as a child. Zhou Yu'an was the only good person in her life, taking "care" of her for over a decade.

But only Cen Shuang knew how Zhou Yu'an would pin her against the glass window and kiss her fiercely in the dead of night.

She thought she was special to him, but at his birthday banquet, all she got was a single sentence:

"Cen Shuang, remember your place."

No matter how many years passed, she was still beneath him in his eyes.

The night she left the Zhou family, Cen Shuang burned everything connected to Zhou Yu'an and never returned.

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But when Zhou Yu'an watched the young master of the Zhuang family from Hong Kong put his family's heirloom jade bangle on his fiancée at that century wedding, Zhou Yu'an finally shed his refined facade.

In the lounge after the wedding, he gripped Cen Shuang by the waist and trapped her there, threatening, "If I take you here, do you think your fiancé will still want you?"

But that day, Cen Shuang, who had always been so gentle, slapped him to the floor and repeated his own words back to him, exactly as he had said them.

"Zhou Yu'an, remember your place."

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After the wedding, Cen Shuang announced she was cutting all ties with the Zhou family. The next day, more than a billion dollars in market value vanished from the Zhou Corporation overnight.

On a stormy night, Cen Shuang had just answered Zhou Yu'an's call in her hotel room when her "husband," who should have been a thousand miles away, pushed open the door. With his phone in one hand, he clamped his other hand over the receiver and bit at her ear as he said,

"End things with him, and I'll let bygones be bygones."

That night, Cen Shuang kissed the tears at the corner of his eyes and asked why he had gone after the Zhou family.

Zhuang Junqian only said one thing.

"You suffered for twenty years. If you don't feel for yourself, I do."