[Second Male Lead Takes the Lead + Male Lead Is a Madman + Female Lead Despises the Male Lead]
Female lead: Fair-skinned and gorgeous, with long legs, chestnut curls, and a red dress with lips to match.
Male lead: Gloomy, cold, without kindness, morals, or principles.
This is not a conventional novel, and it does not strictly adhere to socialist core values. The historical setting is entirely fictional.
An unconventional male lead: ruthless in his methods, with influence across both the legitimate and underworld business worlds.
The female lead is a polished, self-serving narcissist who loves herself.
“Mr. Xie, care to give it a try?”
Though phrased as a question, there wasn't the slightest hint of inquiry in his expression.
Her eyes held nothing but absolute certainty that she would get what she wanted, a quality she and he had in common. Xie Bojian furrowed his brow.
His fingers toyed with a lighter. The flame flickered on and off, casting an eerie outline over his pale, hard features.
“You're not clean.”
Xie Bojian's voice was low and husky, his tilted eyes full of indifference and mockery.
Yu Beizhi hadn't sunk so low as to become the other woman. He remembered that Yu Beizhi already had a man.
And he wouldn't touch a woman who'd been sullied...
“Mr. Xie, you haven't tried me yet. How would you know I'm not clean?”
In my barren, desolate life, you are the only rose that ever made me stop: Xie Bojian