Thirty Million: The Summer That Deceived Him

[Angst-filled romance] [Modern romance] [School life] [The groveling ex trope] [Wealthy families]

To save my critically ill mother, Lin Chenxi had no choice but to accept a task worth thirty million yuan:

Make the campus heartthrob and top student Ye Mu fall in love with me, then get him to confess first.

Ye Mu loved astronomy, so I stayed up all night studying star charts for him. He missed his late mother, so I mimicked her loving, gentle voice.

I was the most skillful of con artists, leading a boy who was just as pitiful, yet pure-hearted, step by step into the trap I had carefully woven and named “love.”

Because my hands were cold, he braved the swirling snow to buy me a hand warmer.

At one casual mention of mine, he planted a field of sunflowers for me on the mountain, in his private secret hideaway.

“Lin Chenxi, you shone into my world, which had always been cloaked in twilight. You are my light, my only light.”

But a ray of light from the dawn was born only to extinguish his.

“The thirty million has arrived. My mission is complete.”

I took the money and vanished without a trace, leaving behind only the words, “I'm sorry.”

Five years later, just as everything was finally settled, he and I unexpectedly crossed paths…