Out of Control

Gu Cheng is known throughout the business world as a cool-headed man in control: rational to his core and exacting about boundaries. He believes everything can be controlled and people can be trusted to keep their hearts in check. When he first partnered with Lin Yue, he laid down an ironclad rule: keep business and personal matters separate, respect boundaries, and never let romantic feelings develop.

At the time, Lin Yue kept a long, unspoken crush hidden in her heart. Clear-eyed about the vast gulf between them, she could only suppress her feelings, behave herself, and keep yielding, maintaining a safe distance as a business partner and never daring to cross the line.

But the thing in this world that has always been least controllable is falling in love.

The tests of their day-to-day closeness, his countless private acts of favoritism, and the tenderness of their late nights alone all chipped away at the rules Gu Cheng had set for himself. His decades of composure and self-restraint crumbled layer by layer. All his boundaries, principles, and restraint fell apart completely in Lin Yue's presence, and his reason spiraled out of control.

The two began a secret, silent romance.

In public, they were distant yet polished business partners, maintaining proper boundaries and no personal ties. They kept their distance despite the world's speculation. In private, they shed every disguise and lost themselves in a tenderness that belonged only to them, their love surging without limits or restraint.

Rumors and gossip came one after another. The gulf between their social classes loomed before them, while others coveted and meddled. Suspicion and unease repeatedly tormented Lin Yue. She was timid and fearful, afraid that surrendering to love for a while would leave her with nothing. Again and again, she considered pulling away in time and returning to the boundaries they'd kept at the beginning.

But Gu Cheng had already fallen too deeply in love to turn back.

He broke through every convention, bore all the criticism and storms, cut off every ambiguous entanglement, and resolutely shielded her from harm.

It turned out all his restraint had been self-deception, and all his rules were merely for show.

He could weigh every gain and loss in the business world and maintain every boundary in life, but the one person he couldn't keep at a distance was Lin Yue.

From guarding his boundaries to completely losing control.

This love, which began with restraint and ended in devotion, overcame every obstacle, moving from a secret relationship to a lifetime together in the open.

Theme: Urban romance.