After the Heartthrob Played Me

The eldest daughter of the Qiao family is hailed as a rare ballet star, a natural beauty born into a prestigious family. Unfortunately, her taste in men is terrible: she dumped her childhood sweetheart and fiance, then rebelled by running away from her wedding. Asked why, An Ran thought seriously for a moment. "Because he's ugly." Everyone was baffled. If her fiance counted as ugly, then there were no handsome men left in Haicheng. They had to see what kind of man she had set her sights on. At one ballet performance, a man in the VIP seats became the focus of the entire room. Everyone was captivated by his incomparable looks and quietly speculated about his identity. The women brought out their best tricks to strike up a conversation, but none of them got anywhere. After the performance, a sweet voice came from backstage: "Honey, my feet hurt." "Wait." The man raised his eyes languidly, personally helped her out of her ballet shoes, then carefully carried her to the parking lot. The crowd was envious. "Whoever says Miss Qiao has bad taste again, I'll fight them!" The third young master of the Yi family, Yi Siqian, has lived overseas for years. He's an investment guru widely admired on Wall Street, and has always approached life with a carefree, playful attitude. The day he returned home, he ran into An Ran, who had fled her wedding after being enraged by her playboy fiance. The girl was beautiful and delicate, yet helpless and vulnerable. Water dripped in strands from the tips of her hair, and she could only hug herself miserably. She crashed into him like a little rabbit, without the slightest guard up. His friends tried to talk him out of it. "That's your nephew's wife. When are you taking her back?" Yi Siqian looked relaxed, a cigarette dangling from his lips. "At worst, I'll just keep her." His friends were beside themselves. "Can you stop messing with innocent young women?!" No one knew that in the quiet of night, Yi Siqian would replay videos of the girl dancing, watching them over and over, as if lifting a veil of mist to immerse himself in her moonlit, hazy silhouette. Coming next: Secretly Married to a Top-Tier Star Ever since her debut, Shi Yao has been called the nation's most beautiful first love, thanks to her fresh, striking looks. Her most famous claim to fame was a passionate romance with Gu Chi, a young actor who had debuted around the same time. Their brief relationship ended when Shi Yao went abroad, and their CP fans cried an ocean of tears. Gu Chi's looks could captivate the world. He dressed with an air of abstinence and was sexy when undressed, and was once voted the man his female fans most wanted to sleep with. After the breakup, Gu Chi quickly became a top-tier star. Shi Yao, meanwhile, vanished from the public eye for several years and fell so far into obscurity she was barely a D-list celebrity. Shi Yao: Is there still time to save my career? When they met again, Gu Chi cornered her at a hotel and handed her a contract. After his transformation into a cold, obsessive man, Gu Chi was unpredictable and ruthless. Shi Yao's palms grew sweaty as she read, afraid it was a form of revenge. Gu Chi gave her a faint smile. Smoke curled around his fingertips. "It's only a marriage of convenience. There's no need to be so nervous." Viewers discovered that in a new variety show, the newly crowned Best Actor Gu Chi had been paired up again with the vase actress Shi Yao. On a foreign street, Shi Yao fed him chocolate cake, and Gu Chi wiped the corner of her mouth with a practiced ease that made it seem as though he'd done it countless times. The sweetness was off the charts, and even the foreign wax figures nearby seemed surrounded by pink bubbles. Viewers watching the drama unfold: I actually found romance in a travel variety show! Did the production team give the editors a bonus? Production team (deadpan): Well, this may be hard to believe, but they're actually... back together. Premise: Treat others with sincerity.