Oleander

Also known as The Designated Driver Is a Top Student, and the Rich Beauty Has Fallen for Him

At three in the morning, in the back seat of a luxury car, Su Tao has just helped her sugar daddy land a ten-million-yuan deal. Turning to the young designated driver, she teases, “Hey, handsome, can you really drive?”

Chen Jiangyou is twenty-five and still a college junior. Blushing, he manages to reply, “I was in a coma in the hospital for six years.”

After eight years navigating the cutthroat business world, she's used to masking her toughness with a flippant attitude. But his words, so full of vulnerability, hit her where she's weakest. After accidentally sleeping through the world for years, he enters her scheming world with an innocence untouched by society.

Attraction blooms during late-night drives, while probing questions and guarded defenses keep pulling them back and forth. When a queen of the workplace meets an “adult who came late to the game,” will this be a brief entanglement where they each get what they want, or are they fated to save each other?

The secret he hides behind his silence and the past she refuses to face will unleash a storm with every clash between them.