After a Socially Anxious Person Was Mistaken for an Online Dating Scammer

Workplace | Healing each other | Beautiful but unaware heroine x handsome hero who flaunts his looks

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Zeng Keqin is socially anxious. Every day, she follows the same route between the classroom, cafeteria, and dormitory.

Her college roommates often sigh at her. "You're so pretty, but all you do is read."

She presses her lips together without a word, keeping her unspoken goal to herself: to intern at the most prestigious firm.

After fighting tooth and nail for an interview opportunity, someone stops her at the entrance.

The man is nearly six foot three, with striking, sharply defined features, dazzling blond hair, and five earrings along his ear. Wherever he goes, all eyes turn to him.

Certain she'd never met him, she lowers her head and tries to walk around him.

But he blocks her way again, his tone hostile. "When are you going to pay back the money you owe my friend?"

She takes a frightened step back. "Do I know you?"

As if he'd expected this, he pulls out a pile of transfer records and screenshots of intimate chats.

Looking at this irrefutable evidence, Zeng Keqin comes to a conclusion.

Someone stole her photos and used them to scam people in an online romance.

And the gullible fool who got scammed was this man's friend.

She, too, was an unwitting victim.

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Jiang Shiyu has a friend who's an idiot with more money than sense. Lately, he's been obsessed with online dating, talking about "my baby" every chance he gets.

Jiang Shiyu has seen the girl's photos: clear eyes, gentle features, the very picture of a well-behaved girl.

Later, he meets a girl who looks exactly like the one in the pictures.

She looks at him with dark, almond-shaped eyes and says firmly, "That wasn't me."

Jiang Shiyu doesn't believe her.

To find a flaw in her story, he starts following her and going against her at every turn.

He watches her go from nervous and frightened to clenching her fists and arguing her case, while he himself grows stranger and stranger.

One day, Zeng Keqin finally loses her patience. "Can you stop following me?"

Jiang Shiyu lifts an eyebrow, smiling faintly. "What? Afraid I'll eat you?"

He really does "eat" her.

From her forehead to her lips, from her fingertips to the ends of her hair.

He doesn't miss a single inch.

Socially anxious girl x trendy guy

Reader's Guide:

1. The leads aren't perfect and have their little flaws. P.S. The male lead isn't likable at first and targets the heroine because, without the benefit of an all-knowing perspective, he's determined to get justice for his friend.

2. Campus and workplace romance, slow burn, with the heroine's personal growth. Some professional topics are covered, and I've researched them. Please point out any mistakes. Many thanks!

3. Both leads are sexually inexperienced and exclusive. I'm an obsessive reviser, so if the paragraph comments disappear, it's because revisions moved them to the comment section.

Screen recorded on February 4, 2026. (I drew the character cards myself. Please excuse my limited skills!)

Theme: Love yourself