[The female lead is a scumbag with no moral bottom line; she torments the male lead and male supporting characters, who are all hopeless romantics. She's a player, and there are male homewreckers. All the men are virgins.]
On the day they broke up, Zhou Qingyue learned that the thirty days she'd spent pursuing him had all been part of a bet.
"I got bored," Jiang Rao said.
After that, he spent a year as her secret lover, always at her beck and call, not even worthy of having a name. Then she vanished without a trace, leaving for three years.
When they meet again, he's Mr. Zhou, an AI industry rising star, and she's Ms. Jiang, representing the investors. At the negotiating table, he's perfectly composed, but beneath the tablecloth, the hand pressed to his stomach is shaking.
After the meeting, she slides a key card across to him. "Let's catch up."
He asks her why it has to be him.
She smiles carelessly. "I'm the only one allowed to bully you. Nobody else deserves to."
Everyone says Zhou Qingyue is crazy. She's dumped him twice, and he still keeps coming back.
Only he knows the truth: for seven years, he's swallowed the arsenic she gave him as if it were sugar.
Until the words engraved on the pen bearing the character "Rao" have been worn away and replaced with two new words:
"It was me."
Reunion after a long separation, rekindled romance, woman pursues man, strong female lead, angst (the male lead suffers), angst first and sweetness later, equally matched leads, happy ending
