[Scheming beauty who plays for power × bad boy who pretends to be good]
[Queen trains her dog | Intense push and pull | Mature man and woman | Fake step-siblings]
When Bai Nai saw Ling Xun again, the first thing she said was, “You’ve grown up.”
Now thirty, Ling Xun asked, “Do you still like people in their early twenties?”
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After a chance encounter on a foreign street, Bai Nai brought home a college boy.
“Do you want to be my lover?” Bai Nai asked, sitting at the head of the bed and smoking as she looked at the man on it, her feelings impossible to read.
He became her lover.
And for the next ten years, he remained one.
She treated him as a pawn, a plaything, anything but a lover. Lovers weren’t supposed to fall in love, but he did.
He played his part obediently, only occasionally overstepping in ways she indulged. He hoped to get even the smallest bit of love from her.
Then, the day he heard about her engagement, Ling Xun finally stopped holding back. “Did you ever truly love me?” he asked.
She said it didn’t matter, and he turned to leave.
Watching the man’s resolute retreating figure, Bai Nai realized she had calculated everything, except the human heart.
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When they met again, their relationship was cruelly exposed to the public. Bai Nai walked the red carpet at a film festival with a movie titled In Search.
Under the flash of the cameras, she said, “Men are my inspiration, my muses, and nothing more.”
After the screening, the elegant diplomat he had become cornered her in the lounge. Their breaths mingling, his eyes red-rimmed, he whispered, “Please, don’t throw me away.”
