[BTS] The Ambitious One

The coming-of-age stock-picking story is now underway. Feel free to check out its companion novel, Little Fan, next door.

“I always feel like my life was split into before I turned fifteen and after.”

Before she turned fifteen, Xie Xiaoshan aspired to live like a lazy fish. As for her future job, all she wanted was lots of money, little work, a short commute, and a boss who wasn't an idiot.

After fifteen, Xie Xiaoshan was forced to support her family. She worked diligently for over a decade and was still a nobody in the entertainment industry. Her fellow rookies had long since reached the top and bought houses and cars. They had money and fame, while she was still a D-list actress with nothing to show for herself but awards, so obscure she didn't even deserve to be mentioned alongside them.

Xie Xiaoshan deeply regretted not going to Thailand for gender reassignment surgery back then and debuting in a group with them. Wouldn't she have already achieved her goal of retiring in comfort?

One day, Xie Xiaoshan ran away from home again. Under the energetic-girl username Li Kui, she posted a photo of the children's runaway backpack Jungkook Jeon had bought her as an apology, with the caption, “Goodbye, Mom. I'm setting sail tonight!”

In the end, Hoseok Jung found the utterly clueless Xie Xiaoshan outside the S.M. building and dragged her back to the dorm. She held a huge basin-sized bowl of noodles and shamelessly asked Seokjin Kim for another serving. Even Jungkook Jeon was about to cry at the sight of her appetite. Taehyung Kim couldn't bear to look at Xie Xiaoshan eating like she hadn't been fed in a lifetime.

What, when other people got mad, they stopped eating, but she got mad and ate two whole basins?

Taehyung Kim was mainly responsible for how Baotou City got to know Xie Xiaoshan. If he hadn't brought this country bumpkin along, what would she have to do with them? They wouldn't have had the slightest connection!

Taehyung Kim: This is ridiculous. You all ate Auntie Wang's food, and now you're telling me it doesn't count?

Original synopsis below

Finance's rising star, Xu Xingmang, has porcelain skin, red lips, a slender waist, and a curvy figure. Her beauty is direct and enticing, but her personality is haughty and heartless, ambitious, and ruthless, leaving no room for retreat.

Everyone thinks Xu Xingmang plotted and schemed her way into trapping Park Jimin. Even Xu Xingmang agrees, so naturally, she also assumes Park Jimin doesn't love her that much, or perhaps... doesn't love her at all.

Only Park Jimin knows that he was willing to be caught in Xu Xingmang's trap. Xu Xingmang is a woman who wears her desires and ambitions plainly on her face. She is aggressive, a force of invasion and destruction.

Why does he love her?

Maybe she's not the kind of person he likes, but somehow, she's the person he loves.

Xu Xingmang has never lost, yet when it comes to Park Jimin, she loses utterly and completely.

One night, rumors about Park Jimin are flying everywhere, and his ambiguous, evasive attitude finally cools Xu Xingmang's heart. She only touches the wineglass, raises her eyes with a faint smile, and coolly praises him: “Very good.”

She flies to New York. Just as she leaves a bar awash in neon lights, a man is leaning against a car. The brim of his hat partly hides his gentle features, leaving only the sharp line of his jaw visible. His lips are pressed together, making him look cold and distant, as if he's holding something back, though she can't quite tell what.

He looks up, his gaze deep, and Xu Xingmang hears him slowly say, “Had enough fun, Mrs. Park?”

“I hate dancing, but I love you.”

Xu Xingmang

“I don't care what anyone else says. All I know is that Xu Xing loves me, and that's enough. Even if I'm not the right person for you, I still love you.”

Park Jimin

Seductive, dominant, and secretly ruthless Park, the chief executive X the haughty, gorgeous, ambitious schemer

Theme: The essence of love really is love