[Radiant, haughty heiress × seductive, sweet-talking young heir] Both have only ever been with each other
Ji Mingzhu has never pursued anyone in her life. She only knows how to tempt them.
The first time she takes things too far with Zhou Jin, she gets dressed the next morning and turns cold without a second thought.
“We're adults. Don't take it seriously.”
Zhou Jin lowers his eyes and gently straightens her collar.
“Okay.”
Later, when the Ji family runs into trouble, she comes looking for him again.
Zhou Jin slides a marriage alliance contract in front of her.
“How would Miss Ji like to use me?”
So he hands over his money, cooks her meals, and answers her call at any hour when she asks, “Where are you?”
The aloof, distinguished eldest son of the Zhou family is unbearably coy around her.
When she talks to someone else for a little too long, he asks in a wounded voice,
“Have you found someone more useful than me?”
She forgets about a date, and he waits until dark without even daring to send her a reminder.
Ji Mingzhu has always thought he was easy to appease.
If he's jealous, she kisses him. If he's upset, she kisses him again.
Until one day, when she hooks a finger around his clothes again, Zhou Jin doesn't lower his head for the first time.
“Sometimes I can't tell whether you're trying to comfort me or just want to kiss me.”
Ji Mingzhu frowns. “What's the difference?”
“To me, there is one.”
Only then does she realize that the sweet-talking heir she spoiled herself has long since stopped being satisfied with simply being needed by her.
He wants her to seek him out, to choose only him, and to come back even when she has everything she needs.
But Ji Mingzhu hates being tied down more than anything.
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Later, she really does try to leave.
Everyone thinks someone like Zhou Jin cares too much about his dignity.
But for the first time, the usually aloof and self-possessed heir kneels before her, his fingers clutching the hem of her dress so tightly, the corners of his eyes flushed with