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A lighthearted intellectual romance about a top-tier VC who is convinced that the brilliant, hard-core academic heroine has a crush on him, then sinks deeper and deeper through his own self-conquest.
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Xu Yuwei, an office worker with the power to see the future when she kisses someone, hates kissing and hates romance even more. She has only one goal: to become the group's investment director before she turns thirty!
But after six months of relentless work, a rival snatches the project away from her in just forty-eight hours. And when Xu Yuwei is drowning her sorrows, things go off the rails too...
Not only does she have a one-night stand with a gorgeous stranger, but an accidental kiss triggers her power. She sees him proposing to her on one knee a month later, while she sobs uncontrollably!
To protect her resolve never to fall in love or get married, Xu Yuwei runs away in the middle of the night, swearing to have nothing more to do with this dangerous "future fiance."
But the next day, she sits down at the negotiating table and finds the head of the rival company that stole her project, Chu Jiming, smiling at her with the very same face from the night before.
As the youngest and most ruthless managing partner in venture capital, Chu Jiming was initially attracted to her looks and body, and hoped things would develop naturally. But Xu Yuwei refuses to acknowledge him, fights him for every inch at the negotiating table, and avoids him like the plague in private...
Instead of getting angry, Mr. Chu is won over by her professional brilliance and tough exterior, soft heart in one high-stakes battle after another. He's completely fallen for her, yet still clings to his baffling confidence as a man in power, convinced she's been madly in love with him ever since that night!
Chu Jiming: Why haven't you replied to my private messages? Are you angry that I kissed you, or angry that it was me who kissed you?
Xu Yuwei: Mr. Chu, don't flatter yourself. But I really do hate kissing!
Chu Jiming: Well, that's a relief. At least you hate kissing, not me.
Xu Yuwei: ...Why do you always draw such bizarre conclusions from the most straightforward things?! Can we talk about the project?
Chu Jiming: See? You're changing the subject again. Are you getting shy?
Xu Yuwei: ...
Reader's Guide:
1. Two powerful, cerebral leads: a top VC power broker × a brilliant, hard-core investment banking academic. At the negotiating table, neither gives an inch, and they face off on the strength of their skills. He starts out attracted to her looks, but is eventually won over by the professional pride she shows when she turns the tables against all odds. She hates how he keeps pressing her in private, but can't help being drawn to his ruthless brilliance in the business world.
2. A male lead who conquers himself: He's a master strategist in business, but in love he's a level-ten overthinker and a logic wizard. The more confident and peacock-like he is at first, the more devastated he'll be when she rejects his proposal to his face on the day he asks.
3. Admiring strength and cherishing vulnerability × extreme push and pull: The more she sees the good in him and feels for him when his illness leaves him vulnerable and out of control, the more afraid she is of making the proposal in her vision come true. The more he can't live without her, the more certain he is that she fell for him first.
Theme: The future isn't written in prophecy. It's written in every choice we make.
She is soft-hearted in official matters and soft-hearted in private matters. The female protagonist is not even as clear as her friends. How can the male protagonist be a self-strategist? It is entirely the female protagonist's "willingness to sacrifice" that attracts "blood-sucking" wasps. Forget it, don't embarrass yourself. Come on, the author.
The female protagonist was suppressed and had the upper hand throughout the whole process. A migrant worker felt sorry for his boss (male protagonist). I couldn't understand it, but I was shocked and aggrieved. It was completely different from the copywriting. The copywriting was about the male protagonist, but the actual content was that the female protagonist showed her teeth and claws on the surface, but in fact she was fierce but turned out to be a calico cat with her claws closed and bluffing.