Modern-day alternate setting + a beautiful woman who knows her own worth + an elegant tycoon + a powerful man who bends for love
Xie Luyan, head of the Xie family in the capital, keeps a spoiled woman on the side. No one outside his inner circle has ever seen her face.
Until one day.
Someone photographs the woman Xie Luyan keeps on the side, and she turns out to be the true heiress of the Shi family, who was switched at birth and raised in the countryside for over a decade.
Everyone bets on when Xie Luyan will dump her. No one expects that six months later, the capital's political, business, cultural, and entertainment elites will all receive wedding invitations from the Xie family. The groom is Xie Luyan, and the bride is Shi Yao.
Shi Yao knows that beauty is a curse in impoverished Xujiacun, but in the capital, where every inch of land is worth a fortune, it's her passport to a better life.
She's cunning. After an accident at a banquet, she ends up in his private lounge.
After one night together, she secretly dates Xie Luyan, head of the Xie family, for three years, relying on her beautiful face. But she knows perfectly well that he has no heart, so she keeps things physical and never gets emotionally involved, taking whatever she can from being at his side.
Later, when she tries to walk away, he refuses to let her go.
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"Nuonuo, have I been indulging you too much? You think you can say whatever you like." The man's gaze is intense, and his expression grows colder by the second.
Shi Yao's eyes turn red as she squeezes out a few tears, like a delicate but stubborn little white lotus.
"You're getting married. I'm not going to be your mistress on the side. Let's part on good terms."
The man raises an eyebrow, takes her chin in his hand, and gives her a gentle kiss. "Then don't be my mistress."
"Be my wife."
"What?" Shi Yao's eyes fly wide open, and she forgets to keep pretending to cry.
This isn't how she thought it would go.
