She Can Hear Me Pretending to Be Sick

Down-on-her-luck rose vs. polished scoundrel

[Marriage first, love later + lovers turned rivals + evenly matched + substitute]

The Su family suddenly falls into decline. To save the company's cash flow, Su Lin reluctantly marries Pei Yanli.

For years after the wedding, they treat each other with polite indifference and keep their distance. To avoid unnecessary conversation, Su Lin starts pretending to be deaf and mute.

When his first love returns to the country, Pei Yanli leaves a divorce agreement in front of her. Su Lin doesn't cling to him. She walks away with her head held high and gets five hundred billion.

He thinks he's the one in control of this game, never realizing that he's the only one who's been falling deeper all along.

The day he's forced to remarry her, he learns what she's really like.

Pei Yanli wears a loosely belted bathrobe, still as wild and unrestrained as ever. Water drips from his black hair, and scratches from her mark his face.

Su Lin hasn't come away unscathed either: he's left a bite mark on her neck.

After several rounds of drinks, Pei Yanli gets dead drunk and finally sets aside his pride.

“Linlin, you're more ruthless than I am,” he says.

Su Lin swirls her wineglass and smiles faintly, touching the bite mark he left on her neck, still burning hot.

When it comes to ruthlessness, he's far worse than she is.