My Ex Said His Brother Was Cruel, Yet He Knelt in the Rain to Kiss Me

They act like strangers in public, but behind closed doors they cling together, body and soul

Chu Huan is frigid. Her boyfriend humiliates her, saying she's drier than an eighty-year-old tree, then tells his friends, "Have at her. Whoever manages to sleep with her, I'll give him a banner of honor."

On her first impulsive night, that man opened the door to a whole new world for her.

Chu Huan thought it was just a brief fling, but two days later, she saw that man at the Qi residence.

Her boyfriend introduced him as his younger half-brother, He Canglin. Chu Huan nearly collapsed on the spot.

But the man acted as if nothing had happened. He cornered her in the bathroom, his icy wolf eyes making her tremble. "Same place tonight?"

On a stormy night, Qi Xiuyan begged Chu Huan outside her home to take him back.

But it was He Canglin who opened the door. Leaning smugly against the doorframe, sated and wicked, he said, "Keep your voice down. Don't scare your sister-in-law."

Chu Huan thought he loved her, loved her enough to fall out with his own brother and defy his family, until she saw with her own eyes that he had another woman in his arms.

Speaking of her, he said carelessly, "I only wanted to play because someone else was after her. Once I had her, she wasn't interesting anymore. Eat too many leftovers and you'll get sick."

So she was only leftovers.

They said the Qi family's adopted daughter was weak and timid. Then one day, she rose straight to the position of CEO, with one romance after another beginning along the way.

The night the wedding invitations went out, it was raining again.

He, the Qi family's illegitimate son, had grown up among thugs, carrying a bandit's swagger. He had built a business empire worth billions and didn't even take Elder Qi seriously.

Yet he knelt before Chu Huan, eyes red. "Look at me, okay?"

[The male lead chases his wife and suffers] [Kneeling and kissing his way to the top] [Fast-paced angst and catharsis]