She Dumps Her Scumbag Ex at Their Engagement Party: The Stand-In Wife Is an Absolute Queen

At her engagement party, Shen Qingyue’s phone suddenly rang. A string of steamy videos and audio recordings from an anonymous sender laid bare the filthy betrayal between her fiance, Lu Mingyu, and her best friend, Su Wanrou. As the guests mingled over drinks, she calmly stood up, put the evidence on the big screen and played it over the sound system, then hurled her engagement ring at the scoundrel’s face. “I, Shen Qingyue, want nothing to do with the Lu family!” She turned and walked away with style, but plunged her family into a grave crisis. To save the perfume laboratory her mother had left her, Shen Qingyue turned in desperation to the cold, ruthless business magnate who was at daggers drawn with her family: Li Jingyuan, president of the Li Group. “Mr. Li, I have a deal. I’ll help you fend off your family’s attempts to arrange a marriage for you, and you’ll be my protector.” She handed him an agreement, staking herself on the deal. In public, he was a refined, celibate ice-cold CEO with ruthless methods, warning her to “know her place.” In private, he fiercely stood up for her when her ex wouldn’t leave her alone, swept aside every obstacle when her perfume business came under attack, and quietly lit her personal sleep-inducing incense when she came home exhausted. Shen Qingyue thought it was nothing more than a deal in which they each got what they wanted. She had no idea that in Li Jingyuan’s study, hidden away like a secret chamber, were the first handmade perfume she had lost as a girl, “First Light After Rain,” and a faded photograph of the encounter with him that she had long forgotten. Their “marriage of convenience” was actually a tender trap he had carefully laid for her over many years. When her secret identity as the “ghost of the perfume world” dazzles the globe, her former fiance regrets everything and kneels to beg forgiveness. Li Jingyuan pins her beside the perfume table and kisses the fragrant scent clinging to her fingertips. His voice is hoarse as he says, “Mrs. Li, the game is over. Your body and your heart belong to me alone.”