The Black Card Lover: The CEO’s Forbidden Game

[Ruthless Tycoon x Clear-Eyed Canary | A Taming and Counterattack in the Name of Love]

He treated her as a substitute, but she became the one thing he couldn’t control.

Betrayed by the people closest to her, Ruan Wu became a living commodity. The man who bought her was Gu Chenxi, the king of Xinggang City.

He was elegant and cruel. “Love? The Gu family doesn’t know how to learn something so cheap.”

He gripped her chin and forced her to get an IUD at the hospital, smiling coldly. “You don’t deserve to bear my child.”

Everyone said Ruan Wu was merely a stand-in for his fiancée, the one among his many collectibles who looked most like the real thing.

She thought she would end up like his previous lover: used up and thrown away like garbage.

Then, five years after disappearing with her child, she returned as an expert on social trends.

When Gu Chenxi saw the boy, who looked exactly like him and was exceptionally intelligent, his eyes reddened for the first time.

Ruan Wu simply smiled and handed him a cooperation agreement. “Mr. Gu, now we can discuss the terms.”

Later, on a stormy night in Xinggang City, Gu Chenxi knelt outside a psychiatric hospital, letting the rain wash over him.

He remembered the equations his mother had written on the wall in her blood, and finally understood:

“When I saw those equations back then... I should have known that people like us are destined to be alone.”

[Clear-headed, resilient sociology student vs. intensely controlling, dark tycoon]

[Coercive romance | Angsty love | The pursuit of a runaway wife | Female growth | She runs away with his child | Happy ending]

The male lead is no decent man. He is deeply twisted and despicable at first, and he will not be redeemed.

The female lead is weak at first but grows stronger. She is absolutely not a naive pushover.

Neither lead is sexually inexperienced.