Title: Drowning in Oxygen
🔥 Cold, ruthless CEO × thorny top student | 💔 800,000-yuan contract cage | 🌪️ Class divides crush her dignity
🌹 Sweetness and heartbreak simmer beneath the surface | 🕯️ A mutual descent into the abyss, and a chance at salvation
"One splash of red wine shackled her with a sky-high debt. She became the only breath in his suffocating world."
On a rainy night while working at the Borui Hotel, Lin Wei stumbled upon Gu Chengyan's bloodiest business tactics.
In her panic, she splashed red wine on him, earning herself a debt of 800,000 yuan and a humiliating contract:
"Be my oxygen for three months, and you'll owe me your life."
He locked her in a glass cage on the top floor of Gu Corporation, his gaze as icy as steel:
"You're worth no more than a drop of wine on my suit."
Yet when documents scattered across the floor in the dead of night, he caught her by the wrist as she fell.
The searing warmth of his palm betrayed the runaway heartbeat of a man everyone called the living King of Hell.
As she sank into this forbidden relationship, hidden reefs lurked beneath the surface:
Rumors on campus became poisoned blades, tearing apart the dignity she struggled to maintain.
The check his mother shoved at her branded her with the humiliation of being "unworthy because she's poor."
The mysterious platinum cuff link that vanished, the lettered bracelet he clasped around her wrist in the dead of night...
Every one of them was a mark in his carefully laid hunt.
When she accidentally uncovered his blood-soaked past,
the gloomy boy in the yellowed photograph, trapped like a beast, turned out to be the discarded Gu heir who had scavenged through trash cans to survive!
He pinned her against the door, his hand around her neck, his breath burning like hellfire:
"Those who gaze into the abyss will have their bones chewed to pieces by the dark."
Four years later, they meet again at a financial summit.
She has shed her youthful innocence,
