A ruthless rising starlet who will stop at nothing to get what she wants × a vibrant, down-to-earth CEO who seems scheming and calculating but actually only wants to make their relationship public
[Double purity | The heroine has a first love she can never forget | New life after a barren winter | Happy ending | He wins her back after a long, painful pursuit]
Everyone said Jiang Lichu was calculating, that she’d used her looks to climb into the bed of the Xie family’s heir and transform herself into a phoenix. But no one knew that every night, as her fingertips traced the sleeping lines of his face, she was picturing someone else.
Until one night, drunk, she draped herself over his shoulder and murmured, “Your eyes look just like his.”
The air froze. Xie Rongshi went rigid, then lifted her out of his arms. His eyes were bloodshot. “Who?”
Three days later, he showed up outside her apartment with a thick stack of investigation reports. His voice was hoarse as sandpaper. “Jiang Lichu, he’s been dead for four years. Do you really like my face that much?”
Jiang Lichu fell silent. Even she couldn’t tell whether she loved him for who he was or for something else.
The day the whole internet started spreading rumors about her, Jiang Lichu’s phone was flooded with calls from haters. Right in front of the paparazzi, Xie Rongshi wrapped her in his coat, then turned to the livestream cameras and raised an eyebrow. “They say my wife is after my money? Then she’d better hurry up and take it. I’ve already given her my bank card PIN. It’s not like I have anything but money.”
When Xie Rongshi was ambushed and badly injured in a car crash, Jiang Lichu dropped everything and rushed to his side. Outside the operating room, she suddenly remembered what he’d said the last time he’d held her while drunk: “Lichu, I know I look like him.”
“But could you sometimes look at the real me, too?”
Facing the fear of losing him again, she finally collapsed beside his hospital bed and cried until she lost her voice.
“Xie Rongshi, from today on, I’ll only look at you.”
Clutching a tissue, he laughed through his tears, his fingers trembling. “Jiang Lichu, say that again.”
Sunlight streamed into the hospital room. She laughed through her tears. “I said, Xie Rongshi, you’re the one I love.”
“I have for a long time.”
Theme: Be my lover, not a relic of the past.
