[Gentle on the surface, clear-eyed and adept at drawing people in × innocent, unhinged CEO in his younger years]
Content warnings: Female lead is not a virgin; male lead is. Six-year age gap, with the male lead younger. Male lead is an innocent obsessive. He gets sterilized for love. The female lead is a genuine player early on. Extreme push and pull. Coercive romance later.
Everyone in Haining knew that the devilish Jiang Shilian kept an exceptionally handsome college boy.
He seemed obedient, but behind the scenes he would maliciously knead the back of her neck in the blind spot of a video call. With the face of an ascetic heartthrob, he pleaded in a husky voice, “Wifey, I want to drink your water.”
Jiang Shilian watched him act all sweet with cold eyes, treating him as a mere amusement.
Until he realized that even in bed, his every move was a 1:1 imitation of a dead man’s.
Gu Ci’s eyes turned bloodshot. “What do you really take me for?!”
Jiang Shilian lazily straightened her skirt, utterly unfazed. “A useful toy. If you can’t handle it, get lost.”
Gu Ci left for Hong Kong in despair. He thought his departure would make the devilish woman cry and beg him to stay, but Jiang Shilian went straight off on a blind date, forgetting all about him.
Three years later, Gu Ci returned as a ruthless billionaire, cornering her in a blind-date restaurant in the pouring rain.
Everyone assumed the big shot had come to take revenge.
But Jiang Shilian nonchalantly looked at his rain-soaked suit and smiled scornfully.
“Mr. Gu, your clothes are wet. Need a hand?”
The ruthless facade he had put on shattered in an instant.
Red-eyed, he gripped her wrist, trembling with jealousy.
“Does that new blind date of yours look as much like him as I do?”
Deep and connotative