Miss Chu, You Can’t Escape This Time

[Second chances after a breakup + long-planned pursuit + both leads’ first love + secret identity]

Sharp-tongued, foxlike psychologist × scheming young heir

Seven years ago, when Chu Xi was a high school sophomore, her stepmother arranged for her to transfer schools. She was locked in her room, stripped of every means of communication, and forced to erase all her contacts. Overnight, she vanished from Shen Qing’s world.

The boy searched the whole city, but all he found was half a note she’d left behind, with the words: Don’t look for me.

Seven years later, Chu Xi leaves the hospital after being framed, so broke she can’t even scrape together the money for her grandmother’s medical bills.

Then a lifeline arrives in the form of a phone call: the Shen family is hiring a private psychologist, with a salary that’s outrageously high.

But the mansion has gone through more than a hundred doctors over the years, all driven away by the Shen family’s young master.

Some say he’s violent. Others say he’s mentally unwell.

When Chu Xi hears the name “Shen Qing,” her heart skips a beat. She tells herself it must be someone else with the same name. How could the free-spirited boy she knew have become the cold-blooded, volatile heir described in the rumors?

But as soon as she steps into the mansion, decorated in shades of black, white, and gray, the suffocating atmosphere sends a chill down her spine.

She stares around, entranced, and doesn’t notice someone entering behind her.

The man’s black suit frames his tall, graceful build. His deep eyes seem glazed with ice, and his voice is low and icy. “Get her out of here.”

…

A few months later, he murmurs against her ear.

“Baby, how about you let me be the only one who gets to be your dog?”

Miss Chu, you won’t escape this time.