Sweet, gentle girl x Tough on the outside, soft on the inside
Age gap | Long-planned romance | Healing and redemption | Devoted to each other
In her senior year of high school, Li Yao's father lost a fortune in a failed investment, fell into massive debt, and jumped to his death. Her mother was in a car accident and ended up in the hospital.
Overnight, Li Yao fell from grace and became a pitiful girl anyone could bully.
She worked summer jobs for two months just to scrape together the medical bills.
After someone locked her in a supply room, a former suitor humiliated her. "Tsk, Li Yao. Be mine, and no one at Jing University will dare bully you."
He didn't mean dating. He meant being his kept woman.
Li Yao knew what that meant.
A plaything, a source of amusement, someone to toss aside once he was bored.
Jiang Chen took her home and handed her a contract. "Three years. Thirty million. I'll cover your father's debt, your mother's medical bills, and your tuition and living expenses at Jing University."
Li Yao asked him, "Why me?"
"Because I need a compliant fiancee in name, and someone to satisfy my needs."
Li Yao had once stayed in Fengshui Alley for a while.
Back then, Jiang Chen was a poor guy who collected scrap to pay for his adoptive mother's medical care.
Li Yao gave him 100 yuan every day and told him to buy pastries from a shop in the east of town.
Every day, he walked four kilometers to the east of town, bought a box of mung bean cakes for 10 yuan, then used the remaining 90 yuan to pay his adoptive mother's hospital bills.
On the last day, he went to knock on the door as usual. A middle-aged man answered.
"Get lost! Yao Yao went back to Jing City ages ago. Someone like you could never measure up to her in a million years. Don't come to our house again!"
The box of mung bean cakes fell to the ground. It came apart, and the cakes rolled into the mud.
He crouched down to pick them up, mud staining his fingers.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't wipe it clean.
It looks so good! I actually think the male lead really likes the female lead, he's just being stubborn. He'll probably just get himself killed by his stubbornness, right?