A Second-Rate Lover

Gold-digging, manipulative bad girl x pure-hearted business tycoon, her first love + a corrupt current lover who leads her astray

Dark romance | Rekindled love | The heroine has a sexual history, the hero does not

Things that might not be for you:

1. The heroine has a sexual history, the hero does not. The heroine is not pure in body or mind.

2. The heroine has agency and does everything for herself, not for men. She is materialistic and vain early on, but gets what she wants in the end.

3. The second male lead gets as much page time as the male lead. This is not just a two-person romance, but more like a love triangle. The second male lead ultimately loses, and the heroine and hero get a happy ending.

P.S. The story is told from the heroine's point of view, while the chapter summaries are the hero's inner monologue.

Her first love, still in a white shirt and black track pants, stood beneath the school building, waving to her in the sunlight. But his features gradually blurred in Xiao Yu's memory, and the sunlight seemed far less dazzling than jewels and gold, the metal fittings on designer bags, or the light reflected from the windows of a luxury mansion.

Xiao Yu thought that nothing was as tangible as money and status.

A foreign man wearing gold-rimmed glasses put an arm around her waist and lifted her to the top of the pyramid, where everyone looked up to her. Until, at last, the pyramid stood too high, and she, still so young and inexperienced, lost her footing and plunged straight down through the air...

Everything returned to the beginning.

The one who caught her was still the man who had been there from the start.

Theme: Love never dies.