Stealing someone's partner / Size difference / Office romance / Older man / Secret, dark desire
Gentle beauty of a secretary vs. cold-faced corporate CEO
The day Xu Yue discovered her boyfriend was cheating was a night she had to work overtime.
The office was dimly lit. The two people in the break room nearby were kissing without restraint, their entwined bodies making her feel sick.
She composed herself and took out her phone to record them.
After recording the video and saving the evidence, she didn't look at the cheating pair again. She turned to leave, only to nearly collide with a broad chest.
She looked up and realized it was the company's owner, He Yuzhou.
He Yuzhou's expression was cool and detached. He glanced at the couple still clinging to each other in the break room, then looked down at Xu Yue, whose expression was tense.
"You're just going to watch? Why not go slap him?"
Xu Yue was irritated. "Mr. He, this is my personal business. It has nothing to do with you."
"Of course it has something to do with me." He moved closer, his presence growing more intense.
He bent down to speak beside her ear, his words full of temptation. "Break up with him, then choose me. I'll never betray you."
The year He Yuzhou turned twenty-nine, his family began constantly pressuring him to get married, and he couldn't take it anymore.
As he considered the matter, Xu Yue came to mind.
She had been his secretary for three years and knew all his habits and quirks. She was the perfect candidate for a wife.
He wanted to marry her. He wanted to marry only her.
But.
Before He Yuzhou could tell her how he felt, news of her relationship came out first.
They had been dating for a year, met each other's families, and were preparing to get married.
He knew Xu Yue's boyfriend. He was a supervisor in Team One of the Business Department and had worked under He Yuzhou for five years.
Ordinary-looking, mediocre at his job, utterly unremarkable.
Still, no matter how he looked at it,
Xu Yue had a boyfriend she planned to marry, so He Yuzhou's own wish to marry her was impossible.
That was what he had thought, but that night he tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
He had been slow to recognize his own feelings, but once he did, he was determined to win her.
Fortunately, fate was kind to him.
His plan to steal her away had barely begun to take shape when he discovered her boyfriend was cheating.
"I stroll through the drizzle, and when I see you, I realize I'm soaked through."
Reader's Guide
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending.
2. The male lead gradually falls for the female lead. He only realizes his feelings when he discovers she has a boyfriend.
3. Their romance will only become open after the female lead breaks up with her ex. Before then, the male lead will only work at it in secret and quietly try to steal her away.
4. Includes the trope of marrying first for the sake of appeasing one's family, then falling in love. (The female lead is just putting on a show; the male lead is secretly delighted.)
Theme: You deserve better
