Not an actual chapter but please read if you happen to be interested

Came up on this on a whim while thinking so feel free to use it as reference if the idea interests you, use and change it as you wish. Tired of reading the generic billionaire cold male and beautiful female lead...contracts, white lotus enemies etc...

So...

FL encounters ML during the worst vulnerable time of her life, ml only likes her for her body and face and covers her troubles, after many troubles and tempering of the female lead the contract ends and she gets given additional money and disappears from his life.

Sounds like the generic story no?

Then comes years later...

She has grown up well, invested her money well and become successful in her profession. A rising star in the business/political/entertainment/design world.

He on the other hand... his distrustful nature and keeping others at arms length and excessive one night stands due to his status. (E.g. thoughts of they only come because of my name and money) so his attitude is distant and often gives gifts or money to his lovers. However this becomes true, a few poor business decisions against a powerful up and coming company and he became bankrupt, his family disappointed in him after placing their hopes and future on him, his 'friends' who he paid the tab for in bars all the time avoid him, the girls no longer show up except a few crazies.

They meet again by chance when he is at his lowest, back then she truly loved him but all that love died when they separated, now it is nothing but indifference or hate. He remembers her as the girl who lasted the longest in his life, she remembers him as the man who took her first love, kiss etc away from her when she was most vulnerable.

The man has not given up on climbing back up while he nags the female lead for help seeing she has become successful she sets her own contract up. E.g. become my male slave/butler while at home.

So the roles reverse and that's the twist. The male lead must put aside his ego in order to gain back what was once his, female lead isn't so heartless as to ignore his struggles if he gets into any issues e.g. past enemies who want to keep him down.

Do not know if anything has been written like this but I found the whole thing to have a somewhat unique twist on the romance genre.

Can also include a friend who has loved the female lead for a long time who supports at the side.

Male antagonist in the form of the company who forced the male lead to bankruptcy going after female lead. (Romantically the male lead needs to step up and hold off the antagonists advances constantly, business if the antagonist goes after the female lead she may need the male leads support to rise faster or his help to counter the antagonist as he has experience dealing with him.

There are some manhua with some similarities like the ex wife is back or other novels but they were never quite as one-sided in terms of the power structure of the male lead and female lead.

It has many chances for plot lines involving the ongoing power struggles of the wealthy, nobles and business world while involving the relationship between the two as he tries to get out of his slump and she adjusts to being back in her home land while developing her business as there is lots of room for different types of side characters, antagonists and so on.

My own experience with writing romance is non existent so if anyone wishes to proceed with something inspired by this then please do leave the title so that I can have a look at it.

I had previously posted this in my books but forgot about actually posting a chapter so it could be registered in my books so nobody could see it but now it should be seen.

If you have no interest in romance or hoped to read a novel here then I apologise as this is just meant to exist for the reasons above.