Six months after breaking off their engagement on her own, Xu Zhixia returned to Chaohai.
She wanted only two things: her mother's belongings and the shares the Xu family owed her.
On her first day back, Li Yanchen cornered her in her room.
He pinned her against the cold door, his voice low and dangerous. “Xu Zhixia, when you went around telling everyone I was no good in bed, did you ever think this mouth could do something besides spread rumors?”
One wild night later, she tossed down a stack of cash. “The experience was average. That's all it's worth.” Then she turned and walked away without hesitation.
Li Yanchen, the man no one in Chaohai dared to offend, had been treated like a male escort by her.
Her father froze her bank cards and sabotaged her job applications, trying to force her to remarry.
In all of Chaohai, Li Yanchen was the only one willing to give her a job.
Everyone thought he was waiting for a chance to get revenge.
No one knew that on the night she babbled through a fever, “I don't want to love anymore,” he stayed by her side all night. When her rival called, he trembled as he said, “She's in the shower.”
Xu Zhixia had already made up her mind: no falling in love, no turning back. She would take what she came for and leave.
But she hadn't expected that borrowing Li Yanchen's influence would cost far more than one night together.
Everyone thought she'd been forced to return to his side.
But she had chosen to break off the engagement, and she had chosen to come back.
The Xu Zhixia of today had long since shed her former meekness.
With photos of her stepsister seducing Li Yanchen in hand, she forced her own father to back down. She used Li Yanchen to pressure him, too. If the engagement was to be renewed, she would set the terms.
Li Yanchen thought he had the upper hand.
Little did he know that every piece on the board was already in Xu Zhixia's hands.
And the refined, gentle man by her side, who seemed so kind and dependable, had never gotten close to her by chance.
Yes, yes, the heroine has teeth and is not doting on anyone at all. And I am more intelligent and like it. Have a look again, I'll come back for a follow-up review