Secret Love, Sinking Into Ruin

[Secret Affair + Kept Relationship + Bittersweet Push and Pull + Powerful Man Bows to Love + Mutual Redemption]

Sweet, gentle, and clear-eyed young woman X cold, ruthless CEO

After her father dies suddenly in prison, Chi Qing, his legitimate daughter, is left with debts of over a billion.

But his mistress and illegitimate son are living abroad in luxury with a massive trust fund.

With nowhere else to turn, she faces a cold, arrogant man who thinks himself invincible, descending like a god:

“I’ll pay off all your debts. In return, you’ll be mine.”

“Your body, your time, your freedom: everything you have belongs to me, and I decide what to do with it.”

Lu Jinnian, heir to one of Shenhải’s most powerful families, sits at the very top of its social pyramid.

Outwardly cold and abstinent, he is an untouchable flower atop a high peak.

Only Chi Qing knows what he does to her in the bedclothes on those lonely nights.

He takes her without restraint, his voice low as he declares his possession of her again and again.

It is a transaction in which each gets what they want: desire without love.

When their five-year agreement ends, they will part ways, free of any debt to each other.

But Chi Qing is mistaken. She fell into the carefully woven web of Lu Jinnian long ago.

From the very beginning, there was no turning back from this game.

He mistakenly believes she wants to abort the child they conceived by accident.

Lu Jinnian’s eyes are bloodshot. He is as humble as a believer abandoned by the gods:

“Qingqing, I can let you go, but please, leave the baby…”