Troubled Waters

[A playful, shameless, scheming man x a sharp-tongued, chatty, ruthless woman; two little madcaps' playmate diary. Both are sexually inexperienced.]

If she could, Tan Xin would spend her whole life being a good-for-nothing.

Unfortunately, circumstances won't allow it.

Her mother, Song Jiahui, went from emotional cheating to physical cheating with almost no transition at all.

Worse, her own uncle ran off with the money from her father's company and started a business of his own.

Luckily, her father hasn't given up and is determined to make a comeback. As for her, she can't do much. The only thing she can do is play the loyal sidekick to Xie Yan, appease him, keep appeasing him, and take meticulous care of the short-tempered young heir of the Xie family. That's how she repays Xie Yan for speaking up on her behalf.

Some people are born to be doted on, while others are born to dote on someone else.

Until she was eighteen, Tan Xin's life was relatively smooth. She was an awkward go-between, neither fortunate enough to be doted on nor reduced to doting on others.

If not for all this mess, she and Xie Yan would have remained nothing more than ordinary acquaintances.

They were just classmates for a few years. After graduation, they'd each gone their separate ways, and who would remember the other?

But it was precisely this shameful mess that forced her to squeeze herself into the margins of Xie Yan's life.

She always wished time would stop on the best days, giving her a chance to cling to life a little longer. But Xie Yan seemed to exist just to tell her to stop dragging herself through life, because there were better roads ahead.

Xie Yan wasn't exactly good or bad.

He was both short-tempered and gentle.

He seemed carefree, but beneath the surface he was all claws and teeth. Push him too far, and he'd bite down and refuse to let go. He was a handful.

That was Xie Yan.