1.
Ruan Tang, the eldest daughter of the Ruan family, was willful and unruly, with eyes set high above everyone else. She had a dazzling, seductive face and countless admirers at her feet.
Ji Yusen, a legend at Qing University, came from a poor family but had outstanding grades. Thin and sharp-featured, he carried a wintry chill between his brows.
The two of them had nothing to do with each other.
No one knew that Ji Yusen was living under the Ruan family's roof.
At their first meeting, Ruan Tang took one look at Ji Yusen's impossibly beautiful face and gave a frivolous whistle. Her mother frowned, and she lazily held out her hand.
Ji Yusen quietly watched that slender hand. A few days earlier, in a dark alley, he had caught a fleeting glimpse of her, her red lips almost dripping, her eyes turning as she entwined herself with a man. That same hand had been draped over his shoulder.
His gaze was clear and icy, his expression cold and austere. Lowering his eyelids, he mocked her without the slightest attempt to hide it: "Filthy."
2.
They lived just a wall apart.
When the windows were open, the wind carried their tangled sounds between them.
His pen hovered over the page for a long time as Ruan Tang's soft panting drifted through the window while she exercised indoors.
On the phone, she called someone "Big Brother" in a voice faintly laced with coquettish sweetness.
After hanging up, she complained to her best friend that she'd grown bored of her current boyfriend and wanted a new one.
His irritation and secret jealousy continued until she mentioned his name.
"Ji Yusen? Not interested."
"A fake goody-goody, a bookworm, a clean freak, and frigid!"
A dark glint flashed in the cold eyes behind his glasses.
His lean but strong wrist bent slightly as he braced it against the windowsill, then leaped through the window.
Their two worlds overlapped. From then on, he no longer had to pick out her soft panting in the wind; he only had to make her pant harder.
Until the day his spine was shattered.
Ji Yusen heard Miss Ruan's still-lazy voice, clear and merciless: "What boyfriend? He's just useful."
3.
They met again at Ruan Tang's engagement party.
They hadn't seen each other in years. Ji Yusen had become a rising star in Beicheng, a guest of honor among the elite.
No one knew that the man everyone at the banquet looked up to crossed the hotel's dim corridor alone and slipped into the bride-to-be's dressing room.
Ruan Tang was pressed against the cold door, forced to tilt her head back and swallow his scorching breath.
Her fiance's urgent knocks sent a faint shiver through her spine.
Her hand clung to his shoulder, her lipstick smeared. She smiled with the same frivolous abandon as when they first met. "Ji Yusen, aren't you good at holding back?"
"Being the heiress's dog," he said, his voice cool and hoarse, surrendering in reckless abandon after enduring as long as he could. "I'm still not tired of it."
2026.03.04
Theme: Love makes people better
