A deranged business tycoon who grovels for love X a gentle qipao-clad beauty who performs Suzhou pingtan
[Rekindled romance + mutual salvation + a blend of sweetness and heartbreak]
Jiang Zhiyi was born destined to be unloved. To save themselves the trouble, the Jiang family tossed her into a pingtan troupe, where she learned a lilting Wu dialect. In her qipao, with a pipa in her arms, she was utterly bewitching.
Everyone said she was as gentle as water and easy to bully. Only Shen Yuan knew how ruthless she was, more ruthless to the core than any man.
For the sake of a contract, she tangled with him for three years. Once she’d gotten what she wanted, she cast him aside like a worn-out shoe. Not even a gilded cage could keep this untamable little sparrow.
Everyone said Shen Yuan despised Jiang Zhiyi, which was why he tormented her at every turn. Only Shen Yuan knew that in every restless night, he murmured to himself, “Yiyi, don’t go.”
The young master of the Shen family was born to have the world at his feet, yet all it took was a crook of her finger to make him fall from his pedestal and sink into the dust…
