On the day of her engagement banquet, Yang Fan hears her fiancé say with her own ears that the Yang family is finished, and she’s worthless too.
Her father dies, her mother is hospitalized, the factory is forced to shut down, and even the grand engagement banquet that should have been hers becomes a joke at her expense.
Everyone thinks she’ll accept her fate.
But Yang Fan refuses.
On the day she calls off the engagement, she turns to the person Li Zeqian least wants her to see: Li Tianyi.
One is the only daughter of the fallen Yang family, burdened with a mountain of debt.
The other is the head of the Li family’s senior branch, calm, assertive, and never one to make a losing deal.
Everyone says Yang Fan is using him to claw her way back up.
Only she knows she isn’t using a man. She’s borrowing a chance to return to the table.
Later, the Yang family’s old case is reopened, the Li family’s second branch falls, Li Zeqian is consumed with regret, and even Qiao Sining begins to fear her.
But the man who once spoke to her only in terms of profit corners her beside a car door late one night and asks softly:
“Yang Fan, you’ve been using me for so long. When are you going to take responsibility?”
