Willing to Be Huai Xu

The night her study-abroad scholarship was stolen from her, Jiang Shiyuan splashed a harasser with a drink at a bar.

As she turned, she collided with Shen Huaixu and grabbed the cuff of his six-figure suit. In her twenty years of life, this was the closest she'd ever come to the world of the powerful.

Everyone said the head of the Jingbei Shen family was cold and ruthless, and hated people who tried to curry favor.

But when Jiang Shiyuan, wrapped in his black coat, tearfully begged him to let her keep the jacket she was supposed to return, the man crushed out his cigarette and gripped her trembling waist in the dark. "Miss Jiang, your seduction tactics are clumsy."

She thought it was a forbidden game between an innocent prey and an apex predator.

Until a stormy night, when he trapped her in his executive office, his usually indifferent eyes burning with desire. "Shiyuan, you should know the price of provoking me."

Later, she became the youngest investigative journalist in the field, exposing the Xu family's dark secrets on camera.

At the celebratory banquet, in front of all the guests, Shen Huaixu drenched her snow-white back with red wine. "Reporter Jiang, is this what gives you the confidence to turn the tables?"

Everyone laughed at the small-town girl for dreaming of marrying into the powerful Shen family.

But they didn't know that, that night, clutching a dry-cleaning receipt on the top floor of Shengshi Group, she had grasped the truth: mountains can crumble, and people will leave. The path to changing your fate against all odds is one you have to build yourself.

**[Clearheaded Ambitious Woman x Aloof Controlling Tycoon]**

**"I used you as a stepping stone, and you used me as an antidote. In this deal, which of us was the first to fall in love?"**