The Hunting Game

Urban romance / Old flames rekindled / Masterful hunter / Marriage of convenience / Powerful man bows to love

Their ordinary working relationship ended that morning.

Rain poured outside the car window. Lu Qingmu hesitated, then turned to him. "Should we go another day?"

Ji Luoshen, already buckled in, paused. "Having second thoughts?"

She softly protested, "No."

He pressed the accelerator without hesitation, his tone unreadable. "Too late to have second thoughts."

That afternoon, her luggage was moved into his home.

Lu Qingmu thought Ji Luoshen would be domineering in bed too, but they slept in separate rooms for half a month. Nothing like what she'd imagined happened.

-

After a class reunion one day, Ji Luoshen, overcome with jealousy, grabbed Lu Qingmu by the wrist and warned her in a low voice, "Do you remember that you're married?"

Lu Qingmu stared at him. "Does this count as being married? Apart from having an extra certificate, how are we any different from strangers?"

Her gaze fell on a certain place, and she added recklessly, "Or are you impotent? I suggest that if you're sick, you should..."

Before she could finish, he dragged her into the room.

The man who had kept up his pretense for so long revealed his true nature. He lowered his head and licked away the tears at the corner of her eye, his movements frighteningly forceful. "Am I still sick now?"

It was destined to be a night of passion.

During a break, their damp bodies clung tightly together.

He bit her shoulder. She curled her toes in pain, but through the haze she heard his hoarse voice: "I hate you so much..."

She panted, "Then hate me. Hate is love, too."

-

In the closed office, Lu Qingmu lay across the desk, her long hair cascading down, her eyes alluring.

He had never been able to control himself around her. He immediately bent down to kiss her.

When they were both breathless, she said, "I saw those photos."

"What photos?"

"The ones you took of me in secret."

Ji Luoshen raised his dark, deep-set eyes. The moment he looked at her, the image of her as she had been when they first met appeared in his eyes.

She smiled again, pinched his earlobe, and teased him. "You seem to enjoy spying on my life, don't you?"

"Yes." He didn't deny it. "I do."

At some point, his eyes had reddened and all his pride had crumbled. He looked like someone pleading to be loved. "But why did it take you so long to come back to me...?"

●

Her friends often teased Lu Qingmu: "Don't you spoil him too much?"

She always smiled and said, "Not really."

The truth was, she had treated him too poorly before, so now she wanted to make it up to him as much as she could.

-

"You can use me however you like. Just don't leave me."

[I know it's all a lie, but if we could start over, I'd gladly act out an even more perfect performance with you.]

Faced with a carefully prepared trap,

he turned around, only to notice her hands covered in dirt.

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Clear-headed, wild beauty who lives for herself (a true egoist) x obsessive, unhinged man in power (pretends to be crazy, but is truly devoted)

Focused on making money x passionately pursuing her

One-on-one romance | Both devoted only to each other | Happy ending

Theme: Love yourself before you love others.