[Powerful man bows his head] [Friends-with-benefits-to-lovers]
1.
Xin Yu is quite satisfied with her friends-with-benefits relationship with Qi Xiuyun. After all, aside from having to keep it secret, the arrangement is practically perfect.
Although there's no aftercare, a custom Harry Winston necklace worth almost eight figures is placed around her neck as soon as it is released.
Because Qi Xiuyun is decisive and shows no reluctance to leave after they sleep together, Xin Yu mistakenly believes he doesn't care about her at all. She even gets brazen enough to accept a confession from Qi Zeyuan, the most popular guy at school.
The Hermes bag Qi Xiuyun gave her makes her look good when she carries it out.
The fact that Qi Zeyuan is the campus heartthrob makes her look good when she holds his arm.
2.
Qi Xiuyun has always been high above everyone else, untouchable, with no woman able to get close to him. He never expected to become entangled with a female college student.
She was certainly pretty, but he had seen too many beautiful faces. Only Xin Yu made him want to get close.
After a sweaty night together, he looked at Xin Yu's charming face and knew she might be thinking of another man.
The secret, dark feelings forced him to pull away from his rapidly growing attachment to Xin Yu, until one day she told him, in a flippant yet decisive tone, that she wanted to end their relationship.
"Qi Xiuyun, who do you think you are? You're just one of the men I've toyed with."
He merely replied in a quiet voice, "Miss Xin, do as you please."
No one knew how many times he had stared blankly at his empty arms in the middle of the night.
Then the kid in his family insisted on marrying a girl from an ordinary family. He glanced at her, only to see the familiar figure with his grandnephew's arm around her shoulders, looking incredibly close. The boy seemed ready to die rather than give up on marrying her.
Suppressing his barely controlled fury, he cornered her in one corner of the room.
The kiss ended when she bit through his lower lip. No longer his usual composed self, he gritted his teeth and ordered her to break up with his grandnephew.
Xin Yu blinked at him without answering.
For the first time in his life, Qi Xiuyun spoke in a tone close to pleading.
"Can't you keep playing with me?" His voice was ingratiating and fragile.
"Play with only me."
3.
Qi Zeyuan never expected to end up with the lover of an elder in his family, especially when that lover was his intimidating granduncle.
But so what?
His granduncle was almost thirty. He was all looks and no stamina now.
Reader's guide:
1. The leads have a six-year age gap. The male lead is twenty-eight and still very much up to the job, at least the female lead is satisfied (crossed out).
2. The female lead loves money and good looks. The male lead and the second male lead have their flaws too; none of them are perfect.
3. The male lead thinks the female lead has a crush on someone else, but it's a misunderstanding.
Theme: Acceptance, respect, and love.
