[Period setting + children of influential families + high-ranking officials + rekindled love + the tide of economic reform + changing times + cutthroat business world]
[Clearheaded, rational heroine × devoted, lovestruck hero]
1988.
Chen Wang, a privileged son from a prominent Beijing family, is irresistibly drawn to Lin Qingzhi, cool and rational to a fault.
He'd give her his life, yet she treats him like a thug to be used and tossed aside.
Riding the wave of economic reform, Chen Wang battles his way through Xiangjiang and becomes a powerful tycoon who can make markets rise and fall. Meanwhile, Lin Qingzhi stays in Shenda, trading subscription warrants at the forefront of the times and quietly amassing a fortune.
In 1993, Pudong opens up for large-scale development. Chen Wang returns to Shencheng with top-tier foreign capital, intending to crush the heartless woman in the cutthroat world of finance.
But on the first night they meet again, Lin Qingzhi mistakes him for a down-and-out young heir from the nightlife scene and pushes him down, eyes red.
“I'll clean up your mess. Just stay with me and behave.” She offers him a bank card funded by her stock-market profits, her eyes full of concern.
Chen Wang watches her play the lofty savior, stubs out his cigar, and pulls her slender waist into his arms.
“Professor Lin wants to keep me? Fine. Money isn't enough. You'll have to pay with your body.”
She thinks she's keeping a pretty boy in a gilded cage. In reality, she's let a wolf into her home.
By day, they match each other in the business world and join forces to make money like mad.
By night, the trillion-yuan tycoon changes into a worn-out shirt and knocks on her door right on time to collect his “service fee.”
When his secret identity is exposed, Lin Qingzhi is so terrified that she tries to flee with her bankbook in the middle of the night, only to be pinned against the lectern and kissed breathless.
“Trying to run off with my money? Too late!”
His gaze turns dangerous as he rubs her red lips. “That CEO at the negotiating table kept looking at you today. I'm jealous, so tonight you'll have to work overtime.”
