Unintentionally Stirring Up Trouble

[A fiery Sichuan-Chongqing architect x a refined, beautiful playboy]

[Female lead is a virgin; male lead isn't, but they both are later | Mature adults in a push-and-pull romance | Playboy's redemption arc | A bad man with a real heart | Reconciliation after a breakup]

Five years ago, in an emergency room corridor, Yin Jiu heard Li Jinran tell his fiancée nonchalantly:

“What's the rush? I'll stop when I'm tired of sleeping with her.”

After three years of loving him with all her heart, she was left with a ruptured ovarian cyst and a world of humiliation.

She cut off every tie and fled Ningcheng overnight, signing a contract with He Chong and pretending to be his wife. Their marriage on paper became her shield.

Five years later, while accompanying her grandmother for treatment, she runs into him again at the hospital.

The refined man who, in outsiders' eyes, is ruthless and masterful in the world of power and money barges back into her life.

Li Jinran discovers that her marriage is nothing but a sham. He buys the entire apartment next door to hers in cash and approaches her step by step, separated from her by just one wall.

In front of others, he is sharp and in control of everything. With Yin Jiu, though, he keeps hitting walls: she's slapped him, given him the cold shoulder, and blocked his messages.

He keeps insisting to himself that he's only unhappy and hasn't had enough of her.

A man accustomed to planning everything learns to rein in his sharp edges and quietly have her back in his own awkward way.

Old wounds run deep, and the hurtful words still stand between them.

Yin Jiu is on her guard and refuses to lower her armor easily. Most of his efforts behind the scenes earn him nothing but suspicion and rejection.

In a torrential downpour, love and hate, old scars, and long-delayed feelings collide.

Only then does Li Jinran finally face the truth: what he's obsessed with has never been just physical pleasure.

[Content warning: The male lead is a genuine scumbag early on, followed by a redemption arc. The female lead is clearheaded and independent. A push-and-pull romance with a happy ending.]