1. I asked the school bully to be my fake boyfriend, just to scare off the man I was supposed to marry. He played along perfectly, following every clause to the letter, from holding hands to embracing. But when I handed him the termination agreement, he smiled and tore it up, his gaze turning dangerous. “Want to end the contract? Sure. Give me your heart in exchange.”
2. To fight back against an arranged marriage, I staged a run-in with the school bully, Gu Chen. He readily signed a dating contract, always showed up when I called, and acted like a pro. But when my family began pressuring me, he shed every trace of his unruly image overnight and stood as an up-and-coming business tycoon on equal footing with my father. It turned out that the pawn I thought would help me break out of my predicament was the one moving the pieces all along.
