[A slow-burn story, not a formulaic wish-fulfillment romp, with a love that unfolds like a gentle stream]
[Ambitious billionaire heiress × devoted, scheming, love-struck college boy]
At twenty-five, Shen Shaoyi secured her position as chairwoman of the Shen Group through the crime of “patricide.” Until then, everyone had thought she was an obedient good girl, a pushover anyone could manipulate. No one knew it was all an act. After her father unexpectedly became comatose when she was eighteen, her stepmother began plotting to get rid of her so she could claim the entire inheritance. Shen Shaoyi saw through her schemes from the start and confronted her time and again, only to be trampled and ruthlessly abused. She endured it all for five years, determined to reclaim what was hers. But when she finally climbed to the top, she realized her father had given up on her from the very beginning.
Shen Shaoyi thought everyone had abandoned her. She grew cold and stopped showing mercy. Then, by chance, she met Huo Zhengyan. At first, she only meant to use him, but as they spent more and more time together, his sincerity moved her. Gradually, she opened her heart and began to rely on him.
But a relationship entangled in self-interest can never last. When their schemes are forcibly dragged into the light, what will become of them…
