I Fell for My Ex's Trick

Three years ago, Shi Yu dumped Meng Xiuyuan without warning and left without looking back.

Three years later, they meet again, and for the sake of her future, she has no choice but to accept his terms.

When word gets around that they're getting married, the wealthy young men in Beicheng are stunned.

No one could have imagined Meng Xiuyuan would be so magnanimous. His ex-girlfriend, who had dumped him, was now going to be his wife.

Everyone is waiting to see Shi Yu make a fool of herself. After all, Meng Xiuyuan has never taken a loss in his life, but she dealt him a crushing blow. Surely he'd get his revenge.

Shi Yu thinks so too, so she puts all the acting skills she's learned to work on him.

Until one day, as they're relaxing at home, Meng Xiuyuan watches one of her dramas and suddenly recognizes the lines. They're exactly what she used to say when she was placating him. His expression doesn't change as he keeps watching.

Shi Yu sits nearby, her heart pounding.

Later, with her pinned against the desk in his study, Meng Xiuyuan's eyes are full of desire, but his words send a chill through her. "I love you, even more than I love myself. If I lost you, I might never be happy again. Does that sound familiar?"

Seeing that he's ready to settle the score, she loops her arms around his neck and sweet-talks him: "But it's true! I really, really love you now."

Looking at those lips that are so good at coaxing him, Meng Xiuyuan lowers his head and kisses her.

[A shrewd actress who knows how to seize the moment x a cold but easily appeased CEO]

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Lu Henian, head of the Lu family in Shanghai, is famously cold and indifferent. He never cares about anything that has nothing to do with him.

Bai Qingyao thought they would never have anything to do with each other, but the first time they met was at his engagement banquet with her older sister.

Her sister stood beside him, smiling radiantly and looking blissfully happy.

He wore a custom black suit, his features cool and composed. When he looked at her, there wasn't a trace of warmth in his eyes.

"Hello, brother-in-law."

She greeted him. He gave a slight nod, then turned to speak with the person beside him.

Later, when her sister's secret came to light, Lu Henian looked at her standing behind the Bai couple and casually pointed at her. "Let's switch them."

After they married, they lived under the same roof, but maintained a polite relationship like roommates sharing a rental.

Until one day, she casually mentioned that the book she wanted was out of print. The next day, it appeared on her desk. When an elder gave her a hard time over the child, he rescued her from the suffocating atmosphere with a casual remark.

She didn't know that Lu Henian had paid a high price to buy that book from someone else, and that his comment was the first time he'd ever stood up for anyone.

She had never known what it was like to be cherished, and her long-quiet heart slowly began to beat again. She thought he might have some feelings for her.

One time, one of his friends came to visit. Through the not-quite-closed study door, she heard him say, "It's just an arranged marriage. It makes no difference whether it's the older sister or the younger one."

"As long as she knows her place."

Her nails dug into her palm, the pain barely registering. So it had all been wishful thinking on her part.

After that night, the heart that had finally begun to flutter settled back into stillness.

As the date they had agreed on approached, Bai Qingyao took out the divorce papers she had prepared long ago and pushed open the study door.

"Mr. Lu, our three-year agreement is up. I think it's time we parted ways."

She had just set the papers on the desk when someone grabbed her wrist. The man's warm palm covered hers.

Seeing how serious she looked, Lu Henian felt a sudden, inexplicable panic.

"In these three years, did you feel nothing for me beyond what our agreement required?"

She remembered what he'd said before, pulled her hand free, and answered firmly, "Never."

She thought it was over between them, but she didn't know that, for him, everything was only just beginning.

Theme: Love means understanding and respect