The Bait: My Boss Is Playing the Long Game

(A fictional setting, a fictional setting, a fictional setting! Six-year age gap, a powerful man who lowers his head, and a gentle take on possessive love. Both leads are pure, both leads are pure, both leads are pure!!)

After years of making her way abroad, Shen Qingzi returned to China to take the civil service exam. She only wanted a quiet life as an unremarkable university lecturer at Jing University.

Until one night, she was caught up in a scheme and accidentally became intimate with Qin Yan, who had been drugged with a potent aphrodisiac.

Afterward, she straightened her clothes and said coolly, “Mr. Qin, you don’t need to take responsibility.”

He nodded calmly too, treating it as a fleeting encounter.

But later, the usually composed and self-controlled Secretary-General Qin began to change.

The side view of her lowered eyes as she gave a report, her focus as she sat alone reading documents, even the indifferent tone she used to turn down other people’s advances... every detail became something he turned over and over in his mind.

Then one day, when he heard someone asking whether “Professor Shen was single,” Qin Yan closed his file and smiled.

From then on, he personally paved her way and shielded her from hidden attacks, patiently waiting for her to come closer of her own accord.

Every step seemed to be her own choice, yet each one led straight into the gentle trap he had prepared.

“Qingzi,” he finally whispered by her ear, his breath burning hot. “I’ve held back for half a year. Now, won’t you come to my side?”

This snare laid in the name of power was never about a position. The prey was always meant to be her, for the rest of her life.