R&D manager vs. the lost heir to one of Beijing’s most powerful families.
In this life, Li Xue only wants two things: money and her life.
To get rich, she picks up Xie Chen, a young heir from Beijing’s elite circles, planning to have his child and get a big payout. Then one day, she sees the script of her life and discovers that she’s destined to die a horrible death.
She immediately changes tactics and takes the tender approach, pretending to be deeply in love, as if she’s given him all the sincerity she has.
But that approach is too slow. She can barely keep up the act.
Until one day, she remembers that Xie Chen has a project on the back burner. If she sells the little she has, she’ll get a huge sum of money. Clean and simple, with no need to follow the script or stick around to play her part beside the young heir until the final act.
Li Xue steels herself and goes for it.
She pulls off the full package: deceiving him emotionally, financially, and physically, leaving Xie Chen with nothing, including his person, his project, and his feelings.
Then she vanishes without a trace.
Li Xue lives comfortably abroad with the money, makes a good deal more, enjoys two carefree years, and even pays him back.
One day, she suddenly runs into Xie Chen, who stops her from leaving.
Her voice hoarse, she says, “I’ve paid you back. Let’s part on good terms.”
“Part on good terms?” Xie Chen sneers. “What if I want this to go on until one of us is dead?”
Li Xue: “?”
The next second, he throws her into the hot spring at his private villa.
Warm water rushes over her. Caught off guard, she chokes, her eyes reddening as they fill with tears.
Xie Chen grips her chin and says slowly, “Once you’ve paid me back for everything you tricked me out of, I’ll let you go.”
Message: Keep your promises.
