After Quitting My Sugar Daddy, I Became a Star

Hong Kong Power Broker × Runaway Caged Songbird [Both Pure + Nine-Year Age Gap + Powerful Man Bows to Love + Groveling Pursuit + Showbiz]

“Ming Yao, don't get any ideas.”

The moment he pulled his hand away, he crushed Ming Yao's foolish hopes.

Ming Yao and Qin You had been together for two years.

In public, he was cold and abstinent. In private, he gave her whatever she wanted.

She thought she was the one exception for him.

Until news that he was to enter an arranged marriage shook the whole city. In a panic, she grabbed his sleeve. “We've been together for two years. Let's get married.”

All she got in return was his cold, cutting response and the mocking laughter of Hong Kong's society ladies.

Her heart died, and she walked away without looking back.

When Qin You heard the news, he didn't think much of it.

The girl he'd spoiled for two years had no one to rely on. How could she possibly weather the storm out there?

He waited for her to come back and admit she'd been wrong, but instead she became a sensation. Her name was suddenly paired with all sorts of people in fan-made couples.

Then came the trending news that she and a top-tier star had returned to the same hotel late at night, sweeping every ranking.

The man who had spent half his life aloof and composed completely lost his mind for the first time.

Eyes bloodshot, he smashed open the hotel room door. A stunning beauty leaned lazily against it, her bathrobe damp, her expression alluring, as if she'd just been intimate with someone.

“Mr. Qin, what do you want?”

Qin You almost died that night.

One day, scandalous claims that the rising star Ming Yao was being kept surfaced, and public opinion turned against her as insults flooded the internet.

The whole internet waited to watch her reputation go up in flames.

The head of the top-tier Qin family in Hong Kong posted a photo of himself kneeling to tie her shoelaces and publicly declared his love:

[Qin You: I'm the one who's being kept. Could I please have a title? @Ming Yao]

-- Everyone mocked her as a caged songbird trying to climb above her station. Only later did they realize he had long since become her one and only.