[Powerful family x contract romance x a remorseful pursuit] [Resilient heroine x icy, controlling CEO, 1v1]
The first time Su Mengqi met Lu Mingze was in the top-floor office of the Lu Group.
The man sat in the seat of power, his gaze detached and appraising.
His voice was cold as he handed her a contract. “Sign it, and I'll take care of your problems.”
To repay her father's enormous debts and pay for her gravely ill mother's treatment, Su Mengqi signed the agreement and became the secret contract girlfriend of Lu Mingze, Jiangzhou's most powerful tycoon.
She kept to her role and played the perfect lover, thinking she could walk away unscathed once the contract expired.
Until one day, the contempt in his voice pierced her heart. “Remember your place. Don't get any ideas. You're nothing but my ‘possession.’”
Proud and disillusioned, she vanished into the crowd.
Everyone said the Lu Group's all-powerful CEO had gone mad, abandoning everything just to find the “possession” he had once treated as worthless.
“Mengqi, come back, please?”
“Mr. Lu, we're even.”
Years later, their baby hugged a piggy bank and said earnestly, “Mommy, Daddy said he ‘bought’ you with lots and lots of money!”
Lu Mingze: “...That was the bride price! The bride price!”
