On the Night My Engagement Was Broken Off, I Climbed Into My Ex's Uncle's Bed

Clear-eyed, alluring fallen heiress VS celibate, unhinged power broker of the capital Jiang Li was once the most cherished heiress in the capital's most powerful circle, but overnight she fell from grace. At her engagement banquet, her fiancé, Xie Zi'an, held his new love in his arms and looked down at Jiang Li with contempt. “Jiang Li, the way you are now, you don't even qualify to enter the Xie family home.” To reclaim everything she'd lost, Jiang Li set her sights on the man at the pinnacle of the Xie family's power, the one no one dared approach: Xie Zi'an's uncle, Xie Yan. Everyone said Xie Yan wore agarwood prayer beads and kept to himself, a “living Buddha” who had renounced love. Only Jiang Li knew what restless, reckless madness he concealed beneath the rich sandalwood incense. At first, he gripped her chin, his gaze pitying yet cold. “Stay. That's all. Jiang Li, don't entertain thoughts you shouldn't have.” He treated her as a craftsman hired to repair an ancient zither, and as a “human calming incense” to ease his headaches. Later, amid the glittering world of power and privilege, Xie Zi'an tried to pursue Jiang Li again. But the Buddha-like Xie, who never deigned to enter the mortal world, crushed his nephew's hopes in public. He drew Jiang Li into his arms, his long, elegant fingers slowly turning his prayer beads as he spoke in a dark, dangerous voice: “Have some manners. Call her Auntie.”