"Yanyan, your phone's ringing."
"Is it an unknown number?"
"Well, I wouldn't exactly call it unknown..."
"Then I don't know them. Hang up for me. I don't want to answer."
"It's the police. I don't dare..."
"Who? Who did you say was calling?"
"The police..."
"..."
Thanks to her stunning looks, Xue Tongyan was inexplicably dragged into an online romance scam case.
She swore that, even though she was beautiful, she really was a law-abiding citizen.
She would never abuse her looks to get what she wanted.
Xu Xiangchen was exceptionally handsome,
the kind of man that appearance-obsessed people would call a dreamboat.
Yet a few photos had made him a victim of the online romance scam.
He swore he wasn't just after a pretty face.
The two of them each had their own side of the story at the police station.
But Xue Tongyan was the only one angry about having her reputation sullied.
Xu Xiangchen, despite having been swindled, was unfailingly mild-mannered and polite.
Xue Tongyan: So what if you're handsome? A handsome idiot is still an idiot.
Xu Xiangchen: I... I'm not an idiot.
Xue Tongyan: Hmph. You got hooked by a few photos, you horny devil. The horniest devil of them all.
Xu Xiangchen: I... I'm not a horny devil.
A man who's both stupid and lecherous is basically a lost cause.
Xu Xiangchen was the "perfect" combination of both.
The only thing he had going for him was his looks.
Even so, superficiality was absolutely intolerable.
So Xue Tongyan found fault with everything about Xu Xiangchen.
Even when her heart fluttered, she stubbornly insisted she would never fall for someone who cared only about appearances.
It wasn't until the middleman who'd swindled them was caught that she belatedly realized that what she'd called stupidity was really deep devotion, and that what she'd called lechery was simply love for one person.
Xue Tongyan: You idiot. If you like me, just say so.
Xu Xiangchen: I thought... actions speak louder than words.
Theme: Love is quietly protecting someone, and finding the courage to take a step forward.
