[Clear-eyed heiress fallen on hard times x cold, abstinent tycoon] [Intense push and pull | Both break their vows | The powerful one bows his head | Mutual devotion, both sexually inexperienced | Strong leads, 1v1]
After going bankrupt and losing her parents, Gu Li had no choice but to move in with Lu Tingyi, a powerful tycoon.
She's clear-eyed and practical, paying rent by bank transfer, keeping work and private life separate, and striving to build her career.
He's cold, but secretly devoted to her. This workaholic, who keeps himself chaste, gradually falls for her.
Until one autumn night at a French vineyard, when a tipsy haze burned away their reason.
In the dim cellar, the man lifted her onto the oak barrel engraved with her name, claimed her in a fit of abandon, and kissed her all the way back to the master bedroom, where they lost themselves in each other until dawn.
In the morning, Lu Tingyi handed her the proxy-holding agreement for a vineyard worth tens of millions and murmured, "It was always yours."
But Gu Li coldly refused. "I don't want to be responsible for you."
She pushed open the door to leave, determined to settle every last detail.
For the first time in thirty years, Lu Tingyi, usually so cold and calculating, lost control and fell hard.
He taught her how to climb the career ladder, and she taught him what love was.
The heroine has her own ideals and career ambitions. She's an optimistic, slightly pampered girl who sees the world clearly.
The hero falls for her and draws closer, but still weighs the pros and cons. In the end, he breaks free of his own shackles and pursues his wife through a hell of his own making.
Neither of them is all-powerful. They both have weaknesses and wounds. Growing and healing together becomes the foundation of their unbreakable happy ending.
