After Pretending to Date a Powerful Tycoon for Real, My Childhood Sweetheart Ex Went Crazy with Regret

[Clear-headed heroine + Mysterious, domineering male lead] [Powerful man rises to the top + Ex chases his wife + Substitute bride + Love after marriage, pampered to the skies] In their third year of dating, Ji Hanzhou proposes. Just when Ruan Youning is at her happiest, she discovers that it was all part of Ji Hanzhou's scheme, designed solely to get revenge on her. She watches as he painstakingly lays his traps and listens as he fools her again and again with pathetic excuses. She doesn't call him out, but coolly watches the show. Only after erasing every trace of their relationship and making sure he can no longer control her does Ruan Youning turn away with easy composure and leave. But at the engagement banquet, where the bride-to-be never shows up, Ji Hanzhou learns the truth and panics, his eyes turning red. “Youning, I called off all my plans a long time ago. I never really wanted to hurt you.” “Ruan Youning, you have always been the only one I've ever loved.” * In Ruan Youning's eyes, Xie Yan is a powerful figure in Beijing's elite circles, a business tycoon, and a refined, aloof man no one can approach. It isn't until one night, after he's drunk, that the man drops his disguise and corners her, and she learns that she is the powerful man's one true love. They meet at a banquet, and he seethes with jealousy. “Ruan Youning, I'm your husband!”