◆ Ambitious schemer x playboy / play the pig to eat the tiger x wicked playboy
◆ Bad people get their comeuppance / combative couple
01/
The year Jiang Nansheng first arrived in Jingzhou, she was still a small-time actress, eating cold boxed lunches on set and running around in a dirty costume as an extra.
By chance, she was brought into a private room full of glamour and sensuality, where she met Shen Yubai for the first time.
The lights cast a hazy, alluring glow. The man lounged on the sofa with an air of arrogant superiority. The agent who had always bossed Jiang Nansheng around was now bowing and scraping to Shen Yubai like a dog.
All night, Jiang Nansheng couldn't take her eyes off him.
People laughed at her. "That's Shen Yubai. What makes you think you have a chance with him?"
Jiang Nansheng only lowered her head and said nothing.
She did want him.
There was no one more suitable.
She wanted to use his influence to climb high enough to look down on all of Jingzhou, just like him.
02/
Everyone in Jingzhou knew that Shen Yubai was lavishly supporting a young actress.
People couldn't understand it.
The actress was pretty enough, but still rather inexperienced. She was naive and dull, and seemed utterly boring.
But Shen Yubai found Jiang Nansheng's delicate, helpless little act, the way she seemed unable to live without him, incredibly entertaining.
For the agreed-upon years, he was almost bewitched, giving her whatever she asked for, whether money or people.
Everyone said that if Miss Jiang ever pointed at a star in the sky, Mr. Shen would find a way to fly up and pluck it for her.
On the day their contract ended, Jiang Nansheng still held Shen Yubai's face and sobbed, saying "I love you" every other word and "I can't bear to leave" every few more. Even knowing she didn't mean much of it, Shen Yubai couldn't help softening. After they parted, he continued to pave her way and give her opportunities, as if doing charity.
Until Shen Yubai found out that she really had been reluctant to leave that day. She couldn't bear to lose his money, his power, or his face, which looked eighty percent like someone else's.
03/
On the day things ended for good with Shen Yubai, Jiang Nansheng was finally driven past her limit by his arrogance and tore off her facade of weakness.
Late that night, she returned to the apartment they shared, took all the valuables, and cut up his favorite clothes and rugs. Before leaving, she scrawled two lines across the leather sofa.
[You're not very good.]
[Your size, stamina, and technique are all far inferior to his.]
Later, on the leather sofa covered in writing, amid the shredded rugs, beneath the man whose face was twisted beyond recognition,
They grappled in a frenzy for three days and three nights.
Shen Yubai put his body to the test, entwining himself with her as she lay exhausted.
"Use me, like you used to. Take everything from me."
[Reader's Guide]:
1. One-on-one pairing, neither lead is a virgin, nine-year age gap. The heroine has a first love.
2. This is the first draft of the blurb, saved on 2025.9.29/10.20/10.31. It will be polished, but the core tropes won't change.
Theme: Work hard, strive forward, and make everything serve me
