Wen Zhaoning, once the proud eldest daughter of the Wen family, had callously pushed away her modestly situated college boyfriend, He Huaiqin, ending their relationship with the flippant words, “I’m tired of sleeping with you.” But a sudden upheaval in her family’s fortunes dragged her into a pit of despair. Burdened by enormous debts, she had no choice but to swallow her pride and appear on the workplace reality show Peak Showdown to make a living.
Fate had come full circle. The show’s biggest sponsor was now the successful He Huaiqin. Standing beneath the spotlights in an exquisitely tailored suit, he looked down at the fallen Wen Zhaoning. The resentment he’d felt when she trampled on him had hardened into deliberate revenge. He had carefully planned the show as a reunion, all to force his once-superior ex-girlfriend to bow her head.
He chose Wen Zhaoning as his partner in front of everyone, using the cameras to magnify her embarrassment. Then he had his manager pressure her into giving in, offering to cover half her debts in return. In the hallway, he produced their faded cherry-blossom photograph and sneered that he would make Wen Zhaoning take back, word by word, the cruel things she’d said six years ago. Their positions had completely reversed. Stripped of her pride, Wen Zhaoning was trapped at last in the fateful game she herself had set in motion.
