Sweet, Tender Devotion

[Gentle, graceful qipao beauty × aloof, dignified tycoon]

[Devoted to each other + 8-year age gap + mistaken seduction + secret crush + secret identity + sophisticated mutual flirting]

In the capital, the Pei family wielded power in every sphere. According to rumor, the family’s most mysterious Second Master Pei was cool and dignified, indifferent to women, and jokingly called an immortal banished to the mortal world.

Yet in the deepest corner of a garden filled with roses, a delicate beauty was pressed against a rose-covered swing.

His eyes brimmed with dangerous passion, and his voice was hoarse and perilous. “You mean you tried to seduce me at first because you mistook me for someone else?”

“And now you want to leave without taking responsibility?”

The girl bit her lip and nodded, trembling with nerves. “C-couldn’t we just go through the motions without getting emotionally involved?”

A dangerous smile tugged at the corners of his eyes.

“Go through the motions? Could you handle that?”

He lifted the girl’s chin and lowered a scorching kiss onto her, leaving no room for refusal.

Love stirred in the garden with the breeze. Red rose petals, symbols of love, drifted onto their shoulders, muffling their soft, intimate cries.

Pei Zhiyu was the formidable man Wen Rujiu had accidentally flirted with and provoked amid a chaotic world where people’s hearts were filled with hatred. No matter how the seas boiled and mountains crumbled, he would protect her with everything he had. He was her only support.

As their deliberate flirtation unfolded, she was swept away even as she remained clearheaded, falling deeper and deeper into it.

But in the end, she discovered that the mistaken seduction she had so carefully orchestrated step by step had actually been part of his plan all along…