I Can't Keep It a Secret: Is My Online Lover Actually a Big Shot?

Funny, fast-paced, and never drags

When Ruan Zhiwei arrived, the original owner of her body had just been scared to death.

To save her gravely ill mother, the original owner had used the identity of “Wanwan” to string along five men at once, swindling them for money and lying until she racked up a debt of over a million.

The most dangerous of them was Xie Lin, the youngest professor at Linchuan University and the undisputed head of the Xie family.

The original owner’s notes contained just one line: “XL. Too dangerous to mess with, but the most generous. Take the money and run.”

But Ruan Zhiwei didn’t run.

Keeping up the “Wanwan” identity to buy herself time, she went to class, worked part-time, and took design commissions, gritting her teeth as she paid back every last cent. She messaged everyone: “I borrowed it, and I’ll pay it back. I’m keeping track.”

Including the most dangerous one of all, Xie Lin.

She thought he was the person she needed to be most wary of.

She had no idea that Xie Lin had set a trap to expose her. At a convenience store in the middle of the night, he called her “Wanwan.”

Her barcode scanner clattered to the floor. She crouched down, wrapped her arms around her knees, and shook as she sobbed, barely able to breathe:

“Wanwan is me. Ruan Zhiwei... is me too.”

All his anger melted away, leaving only heartache.

He pinned her against the shelves. “I don’t care who you are. I want all of you.”

She shot back, “I’m already in love with you! Happy now?!”

He smiled, looking more miserable than if he were crying. “Then why are you still running?”

The ledger finally gave way: she paid off 300,000 in ten months, every entry marked “Paid back Xie Lin.”

Later, Ruan Zhiwei cleared her debts and finally dared to reveal her last secret:

“I’m not from this world.”

Xie Lin held her tight. “It doesn’t matter. You came here so I could find you.”