Flirtatious gold-digger × male lead with irresistible sexual tension
Shen Qingci sings at a bar, owes five million, and gets by among men with her innocent-yet-seductive face and a head full of schemes. Her goal is clear: find a rich fool, pay off her debt, and then make a clean getaway.
He Zhixu is the prey she picked out. Gentle, generous, easy to fool.
But that night, she got into the wrong bed and threw herself at the wrong man.
Fu Linyuan, head of the Fu family in Jincheng. Cold-blooded and suspicious, with sexual tension to spare. He has never lost in business or fallen for a woman.
He sees through every one of her tricks, but doesn't call her out.
"You're a good actress. But next time, try a different role. You're not suited to playing the helpless little rabbit."
So she changed her act.
She spills red wine at a lounge, takes a deliberate fall at a racetrack, gives a gallery tour, and catches the breeze on a rooftop. Every step is carefully planned, every approach timed and angled just right.
He watches coldly the whole time, occasionally flirting back just to see her freeze up.
"Shen Qingci, you've been stringing me along this long. Now you want to run?"
She really does want to run.
Because his love weighs more than all her schemes. He pulls her out of the mud, gives her money, a home, the old photograph she lost years ago, and a promise that she is worthy of love.
She stands in his study, her fingers hovering over confidential documents. If she copies them, her future will be secure.
But she pulls her hand back.
"I used to think about what I could take from you. Now I think about how to keep you from getting hurt."
What she wanted was never his life. She was the final move in his own scheme. And the moment she let go, he caught all the weight she didn't dare admit she was carrying.
