[Older professor x sweet, adorable underclasswoman]
The thing Mu Nuannuan regretted most in her life was opening her boyfriend’s phone after his car accident.
In the chat history, her boyfriend had used her name to call his boss “Gege,” cooing and acting cute while accepting transfers: 4.6 million over six months.
And the man he called “Gege” was Jin Zhuo, a visiting professor in the finance department.
With nowhere else to turn, she and Jin Zhuo were set up on a blind date.
He handed her a contract: marriage, three years, five million.
Mu Nuannuan signed on the spot.
She moved into his apartment, playing the role of his contract wife by day and his online confidante by night.
From then on, Jin Zhuo had two “Nuannuans”: one who talked about money nonstop in real life, and one online who called him “Gege” every day and listened to him pour out his heart.
He didn’t know they were the same person. To her face, he coolly said, “Let’s call it quits once we’ve made it through the three years.” Then he turned around and got all affectionate with her online: “Nuannuan, you’re the only one I’ll ever love.”
She thought she’d kept her secret perfectly hidden, until Jin Zhuo took the escape-fund spreadsheet from her bedside and put it up on his office wall. Someone had crossed out the target amount in red and changed it to “∞.”
Mu Nuannuan stormed in. “What gives you the right to change my ledger?”
Leaning back in his chair, he looked down at her. “You think I don’t know you’re saving up to run away? I gave you the money, and you belong to me too.”
Later, the Jin family was abuzz with the news: Mr. Jin’s little wife was a fraud who’d swindled him out of five million.
And in front of everyone waiting to laugh at him, he said, “What did she swindle from me? Money? I gave it to her willingly. My feelings?”
He turned to look at her, flustered in the corner. “Those were something I begged her for too.”
