[Female CEO, older woman-younger man romance, foster-family trope, substitute trope]
A cool-headed, obsessive female CEO × a seemingly innocent but secretly dark college student
Female lead’s perspective:
Her mother went into premature labor after being provoked by her father’s mistress. Her useless father left young Yun Shu to take over the company. One night, she got drunk and slept with Shen Zhou, who seemed docile but was actually all smiles and false sincerity. Little by little, she found herself falling into a relationship she knew she should never have started, all while remaining perfectly clearheaded.
Male lead’s perspective:
His mother died when he was young, entrusting him to her best friend. He called that woman “Auntie” as a child. After she remarried, orphaned Shen Zhou followed her to her new home. When his uncle needed money for surgery, he agreed to be his aunt’s stepdaughter Yun Shu’s boyfriend in name only.
*The female lead is not a virgin, but the male lead is.
*Five-year age gap. They are not registered under the same household, and are not blood-related.
*The ending has separate routes, with both happy and tragic endings in the bonus chapters.
#The male lead turns out to be a kept man
