After the Unfaithful Beauty Was Coveted by a Madman

Brooding, deranged older benefactor x outwardly gentle, inwardly cold, black-hearted canary

[Wealthy heiress x fallen socialite/actress] | Bitter love | Coercive possession | Ex becomes sister-in-law | Ice queen pursues wife to the crematorium | Lovers who fight each other

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Jiang Qie is the current CEO of Wanxie Group, a cold, formidable woman with no interest in love.

She has many secrets, the most forbidden of which is that she has long coveted her older sister's lover.

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Her older sister is naturally fickle, with countless lovers. When Jiang Qie heard that her sister had found another feline, cold beauty, and was uncharacteristically pampering her, treasuring her as if she might melt, Jiang Qie merely smiled and thought nothing of it.

That was until she glimpsed the cold beauty through a crack in the door. The beauty leaned against her sister as if boneless, panting, her red lips parting and closing seductively.

Her eyes, full of tenderness, glistened with tears. Yet when she looked over, she was alluringly wanton, staring straight at Jiang Qie and saying she liked her, each coquettish word throwing Jiang Qie's mind into disarray.

Jiang Qie remembered her name: Si Linwu.

She was also Jiang Qie's first love, the pale moonlight who had ruthlessly dumped her and walked away without looking back.

Following her, bugging her, installing a pinhole camera in her sister's room... Jiang Qie watched Si Linwu's every move from the shadows.

She wanted to uncover a flaw: proof that Si Linwu was greedy and had deceived her sister for money.

Until the moment Si Linwu abandoned her and chose to elope with her sister.

The pretense went up in flames. Jiang Qie shed her cold facade, eyes red, and tied Si Linwu up in the mountains before gripping her throat and declaring:

“Si Linwu, my sister's gone. She doesn't want you anymore. Even if you don't love me, you're going to die with me!”

“Take a good look at who your new owner is.”

“This time, you won't get rid of me.”

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Si Linwu was born into privilege, a true ice queen, a beloved heiress raised in the palm of her family's hand. Then, overnight, her company went bankrupt, and her fate was rewritten.

The day she was hounded by creditors and had nowhere left to run, Si Linwu collided with a luxury car belonging to the Jiang family and was rescued by Jiang Lai, the eldest daughter of the family.

No one knew it was all a trap. Si Linwu's target wasn't Jiang Lai. Her gaze had always been fixed on another woman surnamed Jiang.

She told Jiang Lai she liked her and kissed her eyes. Only then did Si Linwu smile at the woman outside the door, taunting her to the fullest.

Everything went as she'd expected. The first woman to tear open her collar and bite her hard was indeed her former girlfriend, the poor student Jiang Qie she'd dumped.

“Easy, baby.” Like she was training a puppy, Si Linwu grabbed Jiang Qie's bangs and flashed a smug smile. “So eager. Have you missed me that much, or do you just want my body?”

“Nine years apart, and you must have gone crazy missing me, right?”

“Then come and claim me, the woman your sister had.”

Si Linwu really was greedy, but the only thing she had ever wanted was Jiang Qie.

Being taken away by Jiang Qie, becoming her canary, and entering the entertainment industry, it had all gone according to Si Linwu's expectations.

But she never expected Jiang Qie to be no longer an obedient, well-behaved dog.

She was nothing less than a mad dog.

Nor could she have imagined that one day she would miss an awards ceremony for Jiang Qie, lose the Best Actress crown she'd dreamed of, and clutch Jiang Qie's clothes, sobbing uncontrollably:

“A-Qie, Master, I was wrong...”

“Don't leave me.”

“Please... take me home.”

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“Beyond hatred lies love, carefully planned all along.”

A mad dog x an owner even more mad than the dog. They tear into each other until their lips and tongues entwine, and neither can bear to let go.

* One-on-one romance, happy ending. Si Linwu has no real feelings for the older sister and only uses her to get close to Jiang Qie, then discards her. Both leads are career-driven ambitious schemers who will do anything to achieve their goals. The power games and push-and-pull are the focus.

* So, so, so much melodrama. Feel free to come and go without saying a word.

* The business battles and other plot logic serve the story, so please don't overthink them.

Theme: Seeking freedom