[Overbearing pursuit] [Eight-year age gap] [Resilient, brave ingenue × ruthless, unhinged financial tycoon] [Powerful man, vulnerable woman; neither is inexperienced] [Angsty, melodramatic romance]
She was forced to come to his estate, trading her own freedom for the safety of the family who had abandoned her seventeen years ago. Her father never cared for her, her mother never loved her, and she had been sent to the countryside to live under someone else’s roof as a child. When she sought her parents’ help to pay for her grandmother’s medical treatment, they used it to force her to take her older sister’s place at his Blue Gum estate.
He was the ruthless head of the Pei Corporation, a man who ruled with an iron fist and always got whatever he wanted. To avenge his younger sister, he threatened the Si family into handing over their daughter. He imprisoned her at the Blue Gum estate and tormented her day and night, determined to make her and her family suffer ten thousand times more than he and his sister had.
“You’re not Si Yan! Tell me! Who are you?” Pei Zhen demanded viciously, pinning Si Nian beneath him.
Later, his eyes red, he apologized to her and said, “I don’t deserve to love you...”
