A Beauty Hidden in the Capital's Night

[Secret Crush | Seven-Year Age Gap | Sweet and Angsty | Slow-Burn Romance | Gentle and Clear-Headed vs. Cunning and Devoted] After Jiang Chu breaks up with Pei Wenyao, she gets involved with the most untouchable man in the capital: his uncle, Pei Zhou. He is an aloof, domineering man with no warmth to spare. In her memory, the first time they met, she got him into bed while drunk. She thinks their relationship is destined to fizzle out. Afraid to let herself fall, she treats it as a fleeting affair, seeing herself as nothing more than a rose the man has temporarily hidden away. She leaves the country to study abroad without telling him, and he cuts off all contact with her. Until they meet again a year later, when he barges into the place where she lives. “My family is pressuring me to get married.” “What does your getting married have to do with me?” He undoes his cuff links and loosens his tie, advancing on her step by step. “If you won’t marry me, who else am I supposed to marry?” In a panic, Jiang Chu blurts out, “I have a boyfriend.” Pei Zhou grips her chin. “Are you going to tell him we’re breaking up, or should I?” “I didn’t fall for you after that night. I fell for you first, and that’s why that night happened.”