The Third Day She Disappeared

Delicate darling × rough man

Substitute lover · crematorium regret arc · happy ending

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At eighteen, Zhao Haitang became a blood bag for the Qin family's young miss.

Everyone said Miss Qin's older brother was a ruthless man, someone who had clawed his way out of the slums alone while dragging along his sickly younger sister.

From the underworld and the dregs of society, he rose to become one of Dongzhou's new elite.

Cross him, and he would ruin you completely.

Zhao Haitang never cared about those rumors. She was obsessed with Qin Ge's face, hopelessly so. Even after breaking up, she kept clinging to him and coming back.

Later, out at sea, an enemy forced Qin Ge to choose: "Your little canary, or your own sister."

Qin Ge did not care in the slightest. He did not even spare Zhao Haitang a glance. "Let my sister go."

Zhao Haitang thought the rumors were true after all. This bastard of a man would never warm up, so she was done. Done for good, all right.

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After Zhao Haitang jumped into the sea and vanished, Dongzhou was turned upside down. The old-money faction fell, and the new master bore the surname Qin.

By then, the handsome yet sinister man had already reached the pinnacle of power. There was a ring on his left ring finger, but no one was allowed to mention it or ask about it. Ask once, and he would go mad.

Day after day, everyone he sent to look for her returned empty-handed.

Qin Ge was devastated, holding the Persian cat she had left behind as he murmured, "Be good, and I'll be good too. Otherwise she'll get annoyed."

Then he rasped hoarsely to the empty air, "I was wrong."

All the wealth and power in the world could not bring back the dead.

Until the day Qin Ge saw Zhao Haitang stepping off a private plane, delicate as a little princess, making no effort to hide her disgust for him. "Nouveau riche."

Everyone around them panicked, afraid of setting him off.

Qin Ge's eyes turned red as he restrained himself on the verge of losing control. "Tangtang is right—"

"Do you still need a substitute? I'll marry into your family and bring my own fortune."

Back then, he had been proud to the bone.

Later, he became very practiced at kneeling.