Hearts and Bodies Off Course

[Pretend gold-digger, long-suffering heroine × genuinely tenderhearted, domineering CEO | Both inexperienced in love | Desire before love | Happy ending]

A million-yuan ICU bill looms over her, and online loans have her in a vise. Bai Yu'an is driven to desperation.

On a stormy night, a wealthy family’s schemes leave Feng Lin drugged by his mother and forced into an arranged marriage. He flees in a humiliating state.

With nowhere else to turn, she offers herself and strikes a cold deal:

“Mr. Feng, I’ll be your day-rate lover. I’ll come whenever you call and never cling to you, until you get tired of me.”

In public, they keep their distance, acting like strangers with nothing to do with each other.

In private, they keep to the rules and settle their accounts in full, leaving only their close, tangled encounters.

Everyone calls her a gold-digging social climber who’s after the rich and powerful. At first, even Feng Lin sees her as nothing more than a docile, obedient diversion he can discard at will.

He is aloof and refined, restrained and chaste, and so sure his heart is made of stone that he will never fall for someone over a transaction.

But her daily companionship, her understanding concessions, and her unwavering respect for the rules slowly break through every one of his defenses.

The icy CEO falls deeper with every step, until his heart and body are entirely off course.

Then the truth strips away every disguise, and Feng Lin finally breaks down.

She worked herself to the bone for money and bowed her head in submission, but never out of greed for wealth.

All her endurance and stubbornness were for the sake of the boy lying unconscious in the ICU, the one who had saved her life.

The high-and-mighty Mr. Feng has absurdly become the third party in someone else’s love story.

He is furious and heartbroken, yet already so deeply involved that he cannot get away.

When their deal ends, Bai Yu'an walks away cleanly and decisively.

The man who has always been proud and cold finally panics. Eyes red, he clings to her obsessively:

“Bai Yu'an, what gives you the right to use me and toss me aside?”

Her expression is calm as she draws a clear line between them. “Mr. Feng, we settled our accounts in full.”

It began as a deal, and ended with a heart caught unawares.