A Good Girl's First Tequila

For three years, I was nothing but an invisible accessory in Yan Yuzhou's circle. His childhood friend, He Zhaoyue, was always laughing that I could never learn their rules. I didn't really care about any of it...

Until my birthday. I stood outside the villa where they were partying, holding a cake, and waited for two hours. No one came to open the door. Instead, I saw her post on her social media: “Childhood friends share a bond no one can beat.” The photo showed her asleep against his shoulder.

I lowered my eyes to the collapsed, mushy cake in my hands, gave a soft laugh, and tossed it in the trash. I erased every trace of myself and flew to Korea that very night.

The moment she landed, her flamboyant, rich best friend dragged her into the raucous, dazzling “paradise on earth.” Neon lights flowed like syrup, and her ivory-white dress looked completely out of place.

Amid all the glittering chaos, a friend of Jin Shanyan's happened to run into her and warmly invited her into a private room. When she opened the door, she found a deliberately designed Zen-style tea room. Everyone was forcing themselves to sit quietly amid the warm lighting and fragrant tea. Just as her taut nerves began to relax...

“Give me a break! You're all pretending to enjoy tea, and you're practically turning green from holding it in!” Jin Shanyan's quip shattered the fake Zen atmosphere, and the room erupted in laughter. The tea party was ruined.

In the fresh, lively commotion that had just begun, I suddenly met the eyes of the top-tier star G-Dragon, standing beside her friend.

He was like a glass of premium tequila infused with ice. One glance was enough for his fatal allure to burn its way into her very bones. But what he brought her was far more than a fleeting romantic encounter. Beneath his deep gaze, her painfully humble past, from which she could never escape, was laid bare. He didn't mean to become her lifeline. Instead, he taught her how to stand up on her own in the water, how to pull the thorns growing in her heart, and how to truly love herself.