[Mutual Secret Crush + Mutual Healing + Reunion After Years Apart + Rekindled Love + Love by Force + Devoted 1v1 Romance]
[Clear-Headed, Stubborn Beauty vs. Brooding, Scheming Young Master]
After her father jumped from a building, her fiance humiliated her, and she was left with crushing debts, Jiang Banxia thought she had hit rock bottom.
Then she met Fu Yunqi.
The poor campus heartthrob she once chased was now the young heir to the Fu family, wielding power in Yanjing.
With a casual smile, he paid off her debts, then handed her an impossibly harsh contract. The debt hadn't disappeared. Her creditor had simply changed to him.
"Be on call 24 hours a day and meet my every need until you've paid it all back."
She tucked away every sharp edge and became his most obedient shadow, on call around the clock to satisfy his demanding, secret desires.
Outsiders envied her for marrying into a powerful family. Only she knew this was a transaction paid for with her body and dignity.
When Fu Yunqi placed a ring on her finger at a lavish proposal banquet, Jiang Banxia pushed it back in front of everyone and handed him a ledger filled with entries. Calm and resolute, she said, "Fu Yunqi, from now on, we go our separate ways. There's no need to see each other again."
The man, usually aloof and refined, finally tore off his mask and pressed an obsessive kiss to her ear.
"You want to leave? Banxia, you don't get to decide when our accounts are settled."
"You've paid off what you owed me. What I owe you... is only just beginning."
"You ran from me for seven years. This time, you'll spend the rest of your life making it up to me."
Only then did Jiang Banxia realize that the dead end she thought she'd reached had been his carefully laid trap all along.
