After My Stand-In Contract Ended, the Powerful Man of the Capital Circle Begged Me to Be His Secret Lover

For three years, Wen Li was the most obedient invisible assistant by top-tier star Lu Xinghe's side.

She brewed medicine to soothe his throat and took the blame and the hits for the rising young actress he was promoting. At industry gatherings, everyone treated her like a pushover who couldn't survive without the Lu family.

Lu Xinghe was certain Wen Li loved him to pieces and would never leave him.

Until the night of their anniversary, when Lu Xinghe went to pick up his first love and abandoned Wen Li, burning with fever, on a rain-soaked highway.

Wen Li finally came to her senses. That very night, she settled the accounts, left behind a signed divorce agreement and a fifty-million-yuan termination fee, then returned to her old profession and applied to join the National Theatre Company, cutting all ties for good.

Lu Xinghe thought it was just a farce, her trying to play hard to get. He sneered and waited for her to come back and beg for forgiveness.

But within days, the once dowdy, meek little assistant took off her black-rimmed glasses and appeared in a stunning qipao, captivating the entire internet and dazzling the theater world.

What drove Lu Xinghe to despair even more was that his cousin Zhou Wang, the powerful head of Shengshi Media, a man known for his ruthlessness and untouchable status, personally waited below the stage at the theater with an umbrella and flowers for Wen Li, lowering himself to the dust for her.

Later, Lu Xinghe knelt in the pouring rain, weeping and coughing up blood as he begged her to take him back.

In the penthouse suite on the other side of the wall, Zhou Wang, the living King of Hell whom everyone in the capital's elite circles feared, knelt on one knee at Wen Li's feet. He offered her his entire fortune and irrefutable proof of his six-year-long secret love, his voice hoarse and restrained:

"Lili, he doesn't want you, but I do. Use me. Stay by my side. I'll give you my life."