Everyone thought Xu Li and Lu Shiyan barely knew each other.
She was the most inconspicuous waitress at a private club. He was the Lu family's head, famous in the capital's elite circles for keeping women at a distance.
One wanted to stay alive. She wouldn't live past twenty-five, and only being near him could calm the heart that was about to stop.
The other was all talk: "Stay away from me." "Don't flatter yourself." He'd said those things a thousand times, yet his actions told a different story a thousand times over. He draped his coat over her shoulders, appeared outside her home at three in the morning, and transferred her to a position where he could keep a close eye on her himself.
She never meant to ensnare him. She only wanted to live long enough to finish painting her father's house.
But he took it all as part of her carefully laid plan.
Until she clutched the marriage contract he'd personally denied, her eyes red as she said, "Lu Shiyan, I'm done trying to hook you. I'm leaving."
He trapped her in front of the desk, his voice hoarse as sandpaper:
"Lili, you hooked me, so you have to see it through."
A calculating heiress x a stubborn CEO
She thought she was trying to hook life itself, while he thought she was trying to hook him. In the end, he was the one who fell for her.
