Sweet and Addictive

[Sweet, soft, clear-headed beauty x ruthless, devoted CEO + seven-year age gap + coercive love + groveling pursuit]

When Jiang Yao was seventeen, she devoted all her courage to loving Lu Tingyu. He was the aloof, elegant young master of the Lu family next door. At just twenty-four, he had already made a name for himself in the business world, a light far beyond her reach.

She offered him her burning, sincere heart, her soft voice trembling as she said, "Brother Tingyu, I like you." But all she got in return was his gentle yet distant reply: "Yaoyao, I only think of you as a little sister."

That one word, "sister," pushed her completely away.

Four years passed. The girl she had been grew into a young woman, determined to bury her unrequited love for good.

But she forgot that Lu Tingyu was never a man she could afford to provoke, or easily walk away from. At twenty-eight, the Lu Group's CEO was ruthless in his methods and inscrutable in temperament. When he realized that the sweet young woman was truly about to leave his world, his vaunted self-control completely crumbled. He laid a net around her and kept her at his side. Ignoring her resistance, he tore down her defenses and claimed her as his with overwhelming force.

"Lu Tingyu, you said you only thought of me as your little sister!" she accused him, eyes red. He lifted her chin, his gaze burning and obsessive. "But now, I only want to be your man."

She was sweet and soft, but also stubborn in ways she kept hidden.

He was ruthless, but also loved her with a passion that consumed him to the bone.

A marriage born of coercion, between two evenly matched families. He thought he controlled everything, never realizing he had already bowed to her. She was his sweetest addiction, the only one he would ever serve.