The Villain Wants to Break Our Engagement, But I Handed Him
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Start reading →In an elegant, old-world society of family estates, arranged engagements, and carefully guarded reputations, a woman finds herself inside the pages of a tragic romance—as the disposable young woman meant to suffer for everyone else’s happy ending. Her fiancé arrives with the woman he now favors and expects a gracious surrender, supported by relatives who prize good manners over fairness. But the new fiancée has little patience for tears, veiled insults, or the burden of being “understanding.” She meets appeals to virtue with plain questions, a ledger, and an insistence that every obligation be counted. What follows is a sharp, lively drama about money, family, and the cost of making a woman absorb everyone else’s hypocrisy. Here, emotions are not saved for lonely nights, and a public slight may receive an equally public answer.
Gu Shiyan
He frames his choices as matters of principle and expects others to recognize his good intentions. He speaks in judgments about proper conduct rather than reckoning with practical obligations.
The romance’s male lead and Pei Mingzheng’s fiancé. He comes to break the engagement with his new love beside him and criticizes Mingzheng as insufficiently gentle and considerate.
Song Rouyi
She presents herself as sweet and deserving of sympathy, relying on implication more than direct accusation. She watches how others respond before choosing her words.
Gu Shiyan’s new love, who accompanies him when he comes to end his engagement. She is the rival whose apparently virtuous position helps provoke Mingzheng’s blunt response.
Pei Mingzheng
She notices inconsistencies and keeps track of what people owe. She speaks plainly, argues from specifics, and lets anger show instead of dressing it up as politeness.
A woman from another world who has entered the role of a doomed supporting character in a tragic romance. At the opening, her fiancé arrives with his new love to end their engagement, and she is ready to answer with her accounts.
Pei Shuying
She values family decorum and expects younger relatives to yield for the sake of appearances. She speaks in appeals to duty and propriety, treating disagreement as a breach of manners.
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A senior relative who joins the elders pressuring Mingzheng to accept the engagement’s end. She represents the family’s use of respectability and obligation to silence an inconvenient complaint.
Qiao De
Practical and cautious; he checks the wording on any paper that affects his business and asks direct questions when his security is at stake.
A shop tenant who signed a one-year lease with Gu Shiyan for a Pei family property.