The Socially Anxious Online-Dating Tough Guy Is Actually My Sworn Enemy's Uncle

By day, Shen Tang is a meek comic artist's assistant. By night, she dons her "sweet-and-sultry little fox" secret identity and draws up a storm in the adult section. Along the way, she starts an online romance with a rugged, retired soldier and gets him to bankroll her.

He's cold and hard as nails, but he can't resist her soft, sweet pleas day after day. His "voluntary gifts" go from five hundred to fifty thousand, and she coaxes every last picture of his abs and bulletproof muscles out of him.

Then her wicked adoptive mother forces her to deliver a proposal to the Shen family's sworn enemy, the ninth master of the Huo family, a man with a trillion-yuan military-industrial empire behind him.

Rumor has it that Ninth Master Huo is ruthless and despises frivolous women. In his office, Shen Tang keeps her head down, nervously wiping away sweat and not daring to look at him.

The man crosses his military boots and raps his knuckles on the desk, sneering at her. "You can't even explain your proposal properly. Get out."

Shen Tang is so upset that tears fall. She turns around and sends a voice message to her online boyfriend in the restroom, sobbing, "Waaah, hubby, that Ninth Master Huo is a perverted old fossil. He's bullying me..."

The next second, the door to the executive's private restroom stall swings open with a crash.

The man's tall, powerful frame pins her against the sink. His long fingers grasp her trembling chin. The chat between them glows on his phone screen, and his thin lips curl into a smile. "Enjoyed badmouthing me? Call me something sweet, and I'll multiply tonight's 'voluntary gift' by ten."