[A battle of equals + intense push and pull + nemeses to obsessive devotion + groveling pursuit]
On the night of her engagement party, Xie Youning’s fiancé drugs her with his own hands.
As her mind slips out of her control, she grabs her nemesis Huo Cen by the tie.
One wild night.
When she wakes, the first thing she does is slap him.
“Huo Cen, how dare you set me up?”
With bite marks on his neck, the man calmly buttons his shirt, smiling in a way that’s both wicked and cold.
“Miss Xie, the woman who wouldn’t let go of me last night had a very different attitude.”
Everyone thinks Xie Youning is finished.
The engagement is called off, the Shen Group’s stock plummets, the board turns against her, and her fiancé twists the story to blame her.
Overnight, she goes from being an untouchable heiress to the laughingstock of the whole city.
And Huo Cen, the man she hates most, barges into her mess at exactly that moment.
When reporters surround her, he gets her out safely.
When her cash flow dries up, he offers her a way out.
When her enemies set a trap, he helps her uncover the truth.
Xie Youning sneers. “Why are you being so kind, President Huo? Afraid you’ll sleep with me and refuse to take responsibility, or just looking to take advantage of me while I’m down?”
Huo Cen pins her against the door, his fingertip brushing her reddened lips, his voice low and husky.
“Xie Youning, if I really wanted to take advantage of you, do you think you’d still be standing here arguing with me?”
She thinks they hate each other, that resentment has gone to their heads, that even after losing control night after night they still have to trade barbs.
But later, as the truth is revealed layer by layer, she learns that he didn’t set her up that night.
He’d waited for years, and finally got the chance to see her look his way.
Xie Youning asks him, eyes red, “Huo Cen, what do you really want?”
He bends down and kisses her, crushing all restraint between their lips.
“I want you to hate me, or curse me, I don’t care.”
“As long as you’re looking at me.”
