[Powerful Family CEO] [Transmigration] [Mutual Firsts] [Sweet Romance] [Age Gap / Daddy-Type Boyfriend]
Nan Chu transmigrates into the body of a country orphan whose birthmark covers half her face.
Her adoptive parents covet the fifty-thousand-yuan bride price and force her to marry an older man who's lost his wife and walks with a limp.
Nan Chu's eyes dart about as she sets her sights on a powerful tycoon visiting the village.
On the day he leaves, she disguises herself as a man, opens the car door, and slips inside, pleading in a low voice:
“Sir, please take me away. I'll repay you somehow.”
Lin Quanhao had planned to throw her out of the car, but when he meets her frightened, tear-filled gaze, his heart softens and he takes her with him.
Worried that she'd be left with nowhere to go and end up on the streets, he settles her in a private villa. The next day, he leaves for overseas.
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When they meet again, she's transformed. She's attending a prestigious school and studying at university. Meanwhile, he's invited to give a speech as an outstanding young alumnus and catches her being confessed to by someone.
Later, in public, she treats him with polite distance and pretends they barely know each other.
In private, late at night in the villa, he braces one hand against her doorframe, his tie loose and his breath hot with alcohol. “You said you'd repay me. Changed your mind?”
She presses against the door. His fingers slip into the gap and clasp her wrist, drawing her into his arms. “What are you hiding from? You had no trouble calling me Mr. Lin earlier.”
His other hand has already locked the door. “Tonight, let me teach you what it means to ‘pretend we don't know each other in public.’”
She grabs his shirt collar and pins him back. “Did Mr. Lin go to all this trouble just to hear me call him ‘benefactor’?”
He murmurs, “Good girl. Call me something else. Call me your husband.”
