A Subtle Seduction

[Cool, dignified, possessive big shot × laid-back, flirtatious star screenwriter]

[Reunion after years apart / hidden past / mutual secret crush / happy ending]

[At first, the male lead acts icy and aloof while despising himself and not daring to accept her love. In secret, he’s gentle, doting, attentive, and can’t take his eyes off her. Once the truth comes out, he turns into a clingy, teary-eyed big puppy.]

Lin Fou, the star screenwriter of Xiyu Pictures, has striking features, a porcelain-pale face, and long, black curls. She looks pure with a hint of sensuality, seemingly cool and quiet but actually bold and wild.

Everyone says Lin Fou is a little goddess with no worldly desires.

That is, until paparazzi staking out the film set posted online a photo of a porcelain-pale, long-haired woman pinning a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted man with a buzz cut against a wall, kissing him passionately.

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In Jiangbei’s legal world, there’s a mysterious big shot. Rumor has it he’s a handsome, broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted man with a buzz cut, a rough, roguish air, and a wild streak. In the two years since returning to the country, he has established a mysterious top-tier law firm, which has never lost a case, yet he has never shown his face.

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At the film set, the cold-faced actor Jiang Qian’an watches the supposedly cool and desireless little goddess from the rumors flirt with him like a bewitching little vixen. She tries every trick: casual, straight-faced flirting; suggestive, ill-intentioned teasing; and wild seduction while pretending to be drunk. Yet he only spends his nights alone, eyes red, smoking and drinking in an ultra-luxurious bathtub.

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Later, when filming ends, he disappears again.

Furious, Lin Fou tracks him down and, heedless of the public eye, pins the buzz-cut man against the hotel entrance and bites his lip hard enough to draw blood. As reports flood in from every direction, she merely smiles with her alluring eyes and replies, “I’m pursuing him.”

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Later still, Lin Fou takes him in the ultra-luxurious bathtub he often soaks in. That night, seven years ago, the one that had haunted him like a nightmare, finally faded away because of her in the heat of the night.