Main characters: Mu Yunge and Shi Yue
[One-on-one + older woman-younger man romance]
[Secret engagement + groveling to win her back]
[Kind, easygoing, and warm as sunshine senior cost engineer × devoted, cunning playboy, the thirteenth young master and a menace to society]
Mu Yunge always thought Shi Yue only didn’t know how to deal with problems because he was young, and that he’d figure it out eventually.
In the end, she realized it wasn’t that he didn’t know how to explain. He simply didn’t think she deserved an explanation.
He had been engaged to someone else for six months already, and had always treated her like a pet “little bird.” He didn’t need to answer to a “little bird.”
Their year-long relationship and three months living together had all been part of a scheme he’d laid for her.
He just wanted her to willingly become his secret “little bird,” hidden away from the world.
She might as well have thrown a year of devotion to the dogs. She moved out of their shared apartment, and from then on they would be strangers again, each going their own way. Even if they ran into each other on the street, they wouldn’t say hello.
But after they broke up, he told her, “You’re not allowed to think about leaving me.” “I’m determined to have you.”
Shi Yue had once made a bet with his friends that he could win Mu Yunge over in a month, and that would be the end of it.
But as time passed, he realized he really had fallen for her. He didn’t want to let her go, but he was afraid she’d find out that he’d pursued her for such a despicable reason in the first place.
So, to keep her by his side, he told one lie after another. In the end, Mu Yunge still found out.
She decisively chose to leave, but he couldn’t accept it. All he could do was lay one scheme after another, hoping she would come back to h
