Spoiled to Ruin

[Both are each other’s only partner + unhinged male lead + charged push and pull + fake uncle and sister-in-law + mutual healing + emotional and physical seduction + sweet happy ending] Pei Wanyin transmigrated into a domineering CEO novel as the doomed stand-in for the male lead’s first love. To provoke his first love, the male lead, Li Sizhou, planned to marry the original Pei Wanyin under a contract. He used her while despising and humiliating her, then kicked her out once he’d squeezed all the value from her. Not long afterward, she died mysteriously. Why bear the empty title of a wealthy family’s eldest daughter-in-law, only to be trampled on and secretly attacked? She might as well fight for power! Can’t get out of the marriage contract? Then seize power. While the male and female leads fall in love, she seizes power. While the male and female leads elope, she seizes power. By the time the male and female leads are dragged back, she’s firmly in control. But after she provoked him once, the male lead’s half-brother, the villain Li Yiye, the second young master everyone avoided, suddenly became a different person. At first, he said, “Her eyes are full of stupidity and greed. A woman like that could strip naked in front of me and I still wouldn’t look twice.” Later, in a lounge full of guests outside, he knelt on one knee to put on her shoes, holding her ankle and pressing it against his chest. “I’d gladly be your slave.” Later still, he climbed through her window in the middle of the night and appeared before her after a long separation, his eyes red and his heart breaking. “I’ve missed you so much I’m going crazy. If you dare marry someone else, I’ll level this place!” She used him, but he paved her way, cleared her obstacles, and helped her climb to the top. Before long, in a crowded restaurant, Li Yiye, the new head of the Li family whom no one dared approach, held a woman in his arms and coaxed her to eat. Everyone who saw them said the stunning beauty looked remarkably like the former eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family, who had once held power.