Wildfire Beneath the Surface

Everyone in the capital says Cen Shuang is a worthless nobody that no one wants. Abandoned at the Zhou family home as a child, she had only Zhou Yu'an, a good man who 'looked after' her for more than a decade.

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

She thought she was always special to him, but at his birthday banquet, all she got was this:

"Cen Shuang, remember your place."

It turned out that no matter how many years passed, he still saw her as someone unfit to show her face in public.

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 with his own eyes as the young master of the Zhuang family from Harbor City placed a family heirloom jade bracelet on his fiancee's wrist at the wedding of the century, Zhou Yu'an finally tore off his gentlemanly disguise.

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

But that day, Cen Shuang, who had always been so meek, slapped him to the ground and threw his own words right back at him.

"Zhou Yu'an, remember your place."

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After the wedding, Cen Shuang announced that she was cutting all ties with the Zhou family. The next day, the Zhou Group's market value inexplicably plunged by over a billion.

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

"End things with him, and I'll let the past go."

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've endured twenty years of hurt. If you don't feel for me, I do."