[Stubborn, scheming good girl x refined, devoted CEO] [Reunion after years apart + love and mutual torment + heroine’s patient revenge + groveling chase]
This is a revenge plot long in the making.
Three years ago, Song Yining fell in love with someone and gave him her whole heart.
Then she discovered that Gu Huaichuan had only been playing with her. He treated her like a cheap dish, something to try when he’d grown tired of delicacies.
He had once made her feel as if they were close.
Only later did she understand that, in the face of an enormous class divide, the distance a sincere heart could bridge was painfully small.
She never got an apology or an explanation. Instead, she watched her mother be insulted and her dignity trampled.
After her boyfriend betrayed her and her mother suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, another man entered her life when she had lost all hope.
Yu Xiu was gentle and kind, and he stayed by her side through the hardest days.
She thought she could finally live in peace, only to discover she had fallen into another trap.
Her seemingly gentle, perfect boyfriend had a pathologically controlling streak.
Arguments, resistance, escape: none of it worked. Every attempt to fight back only made his control more frantic.
Song Yining was like a bird in a cage. Just as she was about to be tamed, the man from her past appeared again.
Gu Huaichuan makes things difficult for her at every turn, yet he is always concerned about her.
Song Yining decides to make him the villain. If she can’t escape, she’ll lure him in, use him, and make him take her away from her controlling boyfriend.
Her plan succeeds. On the day she regains her freedom, the day he falls in love with her, she abandons him.
Just as Gu Huaichuan once toyed with her sincere feelings, she tears apart the heart he has finally offered her.
