Untouched by Spring

[Powerful CEO family + angst before sweetness + winning back his wife + multiple secret identities] At eighteen, Gu Miaomiao was arrogant and domineering. She ground Jiang Yanbai’s dignity into the dirt and treated him like a dog. At twenty-five, Gu Miaomiao was on her knees as Jiang Yanbai humiliatingly fastened a dog collar around her neck. Everyone cheered, but only Gu Miaomiao knew the truth. That so-called abuse was an act she had to put on to protect him. Every cent of the seed money for his business came from her selling her blood and her designs. Even the scar on her wrist was left by a bullet she took while shielding him from kidnappers. Only when Lin Qing flaunted the jade bangle that should have been hers did Gu Miaomiao finally smile. “Jiang Yanbai, when the day comes that you regret this, don’t come begging me.” Later, an anonymous video documenting everything that had happened to Gu Miaomiao was broadcast on the giant screen at Jiang Group. When the truth came out, Jiang Yanbai knelt in the pouring rain, frantically dialing her number. Faced with questions from the media, his eyes bloodshot, he pleaded, “Miaomiao, please come back.” Meanwhile, at an auction across the ocean, Gu Miaomiao, dressed in red and holding the arm of her new love, smiled at the cameras. “Mr. Jiang? I don’t know him.”