Setting Hearts Ablaze [Rich Family]

Everyone in Pingcheng knows the Tao family personal-care company. The granddaughter of its head, Old Master Tao, and the apple of his eye, Tao Yuqian, is willful and capricious. Since childhood, she's always gotten whatever she wanted.

Yet this proud woman, whom nobody dared offend, was betrayed by her fiance in spectacular fashion.

Everyone waited for the spectacle, but she didn't care in the slightest. Instead, she planned to give her fiance a "gift" in return: a green hat he wouldn't dare take off.

At Tao Yuqian's fifth birthday party, she took a liking to a little boy who'd come to visit her family.

But the boy not only rejected her, he even made a face at her as he left, while she cried her eyes out.

Tao Yuqian held onto that grudge for over a decade. Then she heard that Liu Songli had left the military and taken over his family's company, replacing four special assistants in three months. Each one had a slim waist and long legs.

She looked at her figure in the mirror and knew her chance had come. They were all adults, so why talk about feelings? She simply had a thing for Liu Songli.

So Tao Yuqian secretly booked a flight without telling her family and went to apply for the job as Liu Songli's fifth assistant.

Liu Songli pulled Tao Yuqian, who was working in the secretarial office, into his arms.

"I have to entertain business partners at tonight's banquet. Dress up nicely."

"Why?"

"A respected elder wants me to marry his granddaughter. You know what to do, right, little lover?"

"Leave it to me!"

That evening, Tao Yuqian wore a low-cut, backless evening gown with a thigh-high slit and put on a deliberately tacky, seductress-style makeup look, ready to make the other woman back off.

But as she linked arms with Liu Songli, practically hanging her whole body on him, she spotted someone she knew.

"Yuqian?! What are you doing here?"

"Grandpa... What are you doing here?"

Liu Songli, who had arranged everything, put an arm around her shoulders and smiled politely. "Grandpa Tao, Yuqian and I were just having some fun. She wanted to surprise you."

"Qianqian, I only made a face to cheer you up and stop you from crying."

[She thought she was the one reeling him in, but he had been laying the groundwork all along]

Tough on the outside, soft on the inside, alluring fishing-line heiress x cool, super-capable, fiercely protective young uncle

Content warnings:

1. Both leads have only ever been with each other. Two drama queens dressing up and putting on a show.

2. The characters' values do not necessarily reflect the author's. Love and peace.

3. Expect melodramatic coincidences and conflicts. If you're easily bothered, this may not be for you. No need to let me know if you drop it.

Next up: a groveling romance, Play Me

Yangcheng has two major conglomerates, nicknamed the Ji family in the south and the Qiao family in the north.

The Qiao family's heir, Qiao Zesheng, is rich, handsome, carefree, and generous.

Girls who pursue him could line up from the south of the city to the north. They're all slim, long-legged beauties. The question is, who can claim a place in his heart?

One day, while waiting by his car, Qiao Zesheng received a love letter and tossed it aside without even looking at it.

The girl who'd given it to him wore a school uniform and had her hair in a frumpy bun. Her gaze was timid. She wasn't his type at all.

But a few days later, at Yangcheng's biggest nightclub, a face that looked just like hers drew everyone's attention.

The girl on the dance floor wore exquisite smoky eye makeup, singing as she swayed, with a smile as bewitching as a demon's.

After the song, she gracefully hopped off the stage and was swept into the arms of Ji Shaoyang, the young master of the Ji family from the south. She smiled at him coyly.

Qiao Zesheng licked his teeth, narrowed his eyes, and trapped her between his arms. "The Ji family in the south and the Qiao family in the north, and you're still trying to play both sides? Are you fucking playing me?"

"So what?" The girl lifted her chin, her eyes full of defiance. "Want me to play you?"

He thought Chu Youqing was his canary, a bird in a cage. He never imagined that one day she'd fly away without looking back...

When the jerk Qiao Zesheng knelt before her with a diamond ring, roses, and his entire fortune, he said, "Chu Chu, play me. Do whatever you want with me, okay...?"

Chu Youqing waved goodbye, leaving without a trace. "I'm bored of you."

Thematic premise: By striving for what you want and living your best life, you will find happiness.