City of Desire - Chapter 289: Invitations

【Super Sweet Romance! Direct tough guy × Tender spoiled beauty】The pampered heiress Ye Manman transmigrates into a period novel, becoming an important supporting character whose luck has been stolen and who suffers repeated humiliations from the female lead. From the moment they get married, their destinies begin to diverge drastically.The female lead rises steadily, while the supporting character remains devoted to the male lead, maintaining her purity and refusing to compromise. Eventually, she's impoverished, abducted into the mountains, and becomes mentally unstable.Ye Manman speechless jpg.Counting on her fingers, she lists out all the qualities of her rugged husband: full-time nanny, all-around housekeeper, elite chef, fully automated money machine...The picky and shopping-loving Ye Manman exclaims her love for him.Married! Committed for life! Wouldn't leave him even if beaten!From the day they got married, no one in the village had high hopes.Ye Manman is delicate and soft, unable to carry things on her shoulders or work in the fields, expecting everything to be handed to her. She frequently collects flowers and eats wild fruits. People say the man has married a living ancestor, unable to bear it, predicting the marriage will end soon.However, the more demanding Ye Manman becomes, the more doting the man is, making the entire village incredibly jealous and envious...Their lives only get better, renovating and expanding, doing business to buy a western-style house, even getting into college to become the richest family...The original female lead, supposed to be living a life of luxury in a mansion and driving fancy cars, ends up in tatters, lying on the ground, staring at the sky.“What exactly went wrong? Where is the promised life of wealth and honor?”

Sequel of Allison, taking place about 17 years after the original series.

I came home from college expecting to deal with my emotionally unavailable father, an empty fridge, and a summer full of boredom.What I didn’t expect was to walk into the kitchen and find a barefoot, stunning woman in my dad’s shirt stirring eggs like she owned the place.Spoiler: She does.Her name is Elena, and apparently, she’s my brand-new stepmother—seven years older than me, way too cheerful, and totally off-limits.But try telling that to my brain when she’s bending over to grab orange juice or accidentally falling on top of me in the laundry room. Try telling that to my heart when she’s laughing at my jokes, defending me at dinner, or wearing my hoodie because “it smells like comfort.”My dad doesn’t see her. Not really.But I do.And that’s the problem.Now I’m stuck in a house full of tension, sarcasm, and slow-burn chaos.She’s married to my father.I’m supposed to be focusing on my future.But somehow, I’m falling for the one woman I absolutely, definitely, 100% should not be falling for.Oops.

He hated everything I was, but I searched for affection in every cruel glance he gave me.“There were so many things I wanted to say to you, but even writing them feels impossible. Because I know that if I were to put down the words I keep in my heart, you'd only say it's natural, after all, I’m just a stupid, self-centered person, like you often said.But I'm not. And that’s why I won’t bare my heart to someone who never truly knew me. Because... you wouldn’t trust the sincerity of a stranger. Right?But I did.You were the stranger whose sincerity I believed in.So I’m stepping away from being the person who embodies everything you hate—because I hate those things too.Maybe in another life, I’ll get to tell you who I really am.”