Willing to Kneel

[Angst and yearning | Fake replacement | Both leads are virgins | Happy ending]

Lin Mo deceived Shen Yi.

When she did it, she had no idea the consequences would be so severe.

All she knew was that he was notorious in business for his ruthlessness,

proud and aloof, the most watched heir to an elite family.

And being deceived was what he hated most.

She’d heard that traitors never came to a good end,

but by the time she found out, it was too late.

She had deceived him, used him, and... they had explored each other with reckless abandon.

The night of a coworkers’ gathering, Shen Yi appeared out of nowhere.

Under the table, he quietly took her hand and laced their fingers together, gripping tightly.

Lin Mo didn’t want their relationship made public. She cruelly pulled her hand away and got into someone else’s car.

Outside the window, he silently lit a cigarette.

He watched her through the glass without saying a word.

Late that night, he called her, his voice hoarse.

“Do I... make you feel embarrassed?”

In that moment, Lin Mo suddenly realized: the man up in the heavens had fallen to earth.

When she was in college, Lin Mo and her roommate once took a wrong turn down a certain road.

An old Western-style house was half-hidden behind plane trees, the dappled sunlight falling on an arched attic window.

She raised her phone and took a picture of it.

Only later did she find out that the house belonged to the Shen family, a century-old clan with deep roots in Haicheng.

Back then, Lin Mo had never imagined she’d get through that guarded door.

Much less that one day he would pin her against that very window, and they would do all sorts of outrageous things.

Reader’s guide:

1. One-on-one romance | Both leads are virgins | Happy ending

2. The rumors about a replacement, a starlet, and a kept woman are all misunderstandings from the female lead’s point of view.

3. Neither lead is perfect. They truly scheme against and use each other, and their relationship is a two-way tug-of-war.

4. Work-related details are based on online sources. Please don’t scrutinize them too closely.

5. There are workplace storylines for both leads.

Theme: Don’t lose yourself.