1.
Feng Cancan, the eldest daughter of the wealthy Feng family, lives by one rule: do whatever she wants, with no regard for the law or anyone else. Bored and looking for a fling to pass the time, she picks a sunny, handsome college athlete with a great body who can cook. Even better, he's the boyfriend her frenemy just started dating yesterday. So she promptly swoops in and steals him away.
After three months, she's bored. She makes up a text to break up with him. Less than ten minutes after sending it, he rushes to her villa through wind and rain, soaked through like a drowned puppy.
His face is impossible to distinguish between rain and tears. He clutches her hand against his chest, pleading through choked sobs: "From now on, you can do whatever you want. I'll do anything you ask. Can you just keep playing with me for a few more days? Don't break up with me now."
Feng Cancan agrees on a whim, purely because he's gorgeous. No, because she's kindhearted. Smiling with ill intent, she says, "It's pouring outside. Come in and get out of the rain." Then she leads her long-armed, slim-waisted, eight-pack-abs boyfriend inside and straight to the bedroom, where they make passionate love for three days and three nights.
Years later, just woken up, Miss Feng lazily leans against the stairs, admiring the tall, handsome man in an apron as he expertly makes breakfast by the kitchen counter. Only then does she belatedly realize: oh no, she seems to have fallen for someone's beauty trap.
2.
Young Chinese-American basketball player Song Kai led his team back to the top as Finals MVP, claiming the league championship for the first time in six years. The outside world hailed him as the greatest rookie in history, and he was suddenly the center of countless discussions.
People went wild over his incredible skills, exceptionally handsome looks, signature heart-hand celebration on the court, and almost monastic private life. Unlike his teammates, whose hormones ran rampant and who indulged without restraint, he didn't drink, go clubbing, or attend parties. He didn't even have a rumored love interest. He seemed like an aloof flower on a mountaintop, untouched by romance.
Then a tabloid reporter released a video. On the lawn at a dog park, a tall young man with a commanding presence knelt to tie the shoes of a petite, delicate girl. She smiled sweetly, cupped his face, and gave him a peck on the lips. The young man immediately pressed close, holding the back of her neck as he kissed her passionately.
The whole internet was in an uproar: turns out everyone falls in love.
3.
Later, the media interviewed Song Kai. The host asked, "You've kept climbing to new heights and challenging your limits. What's your greatest motivation?"
Song Kai thought for a moment. "To be worthy of someone."
The host mischievously followed up: "Which matters more to you, this person or basketball?"
He smiled and answered without hesitation: "Of course it's her. In my world, she will always come first."
"Even before your career, money, fame, and status?"
"Yes. She matters more than everything in the world, including myself. I can't imagine a world without her. My love for her doesn't come from desire; it comes from my soul. My soul commands me to love her, and I have no choice but to obey."
4.
Nobody understood why Song Kai was so devoted to Feng Cancan, just as Feng Cancan didn't know when she had started becoming so enamored with him. Perhaps it was on that snowy evening when they first met. She saw his lonely soul reflected beneath the moonlight in a cabin in the woods, like a jade hosta flower that no one had ever noticed. Only she, and no one else, was worthy of admiring it.
Reader's guide:
Arrogant bad-girl heiress x lovesick, loyal basketball star
The heroine starts out a spoiled heiress and later gets a queenly story arc. She can be a badass or a cutie.
The hero falls in love at first sight, is clingy, obedient, and blindly devoted, and does whatever his girlfriend says.
Both are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one, each other's one and only, happy ending, light and sweet romance.
Content warnings:
1. From the start, the heroine steals her "frenemy's" boyfriend. In fact, the hero was pressured by the friend into a fake relationship, and the heroine steals him away on the very first day.
2. The heroine is a self-interested, ambitious schemer with little sense of morality. She isn't the considerate type, so don't read if that's not your thing.
3. The heroine has a nominal fiance, but there is no romantic plotline, and the engagement ends later.
Theme: To love and be loved is a matter of luck
