Fire Control

Jiang Jianyue, a wealthy and beautiful heiress, flees an arranged marriage by hiding overseas and making a living selling paintings.

She loves painting nudes, but her high standards mean she can never find a model who inspires her. In a fit of frustration, she plasters the entire street with recruitment posters.

That night, a tall, handsome man knocks on her door.

Rain falls from the sky. His black hair drips with water, and in his arms is a thick roll of posters torn from the walls.

Right in front of her, the man casually takes off his shirt in a few swift movements.

Moonlight outlines his broad, sturdy frame in the drizzle. For a moment, he looks like a white dragon bathing in the waters of myth.

Jiang Jianyue freezes, unable to look away for a long time.

That winter night, every stroke she paints bears the image of the white dragon, until light and shadow mingle with the fire, and spilled paint stains their bodies.

Later, a crisis at home forces Jiang Jianyue to put this absurd affair behind her and return to China to face the unavoidable arranged marriage.

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A few days later, an art exhibition opens.

The exhibition's sponsor, Lu Zaichuan, comes from a wealthy family and is devastatingly handsome, but he has always been aloof and cold. He is especially harsh toward Jiang Jianyue, who is exhibiting for the first time.

In the dimly lit gallery, Jiang Jianyue tries to keep calm as she covers her painting with velvet.

Remembering how tender the woman had been in that foreign land, Lu Zaichuan coldly yanks the cloth away.

The face in the painting is exactly like his own, clear evidence that someone has taken what he wanted and then abandoned him...

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A fire destroys most of Lu Zaichuan's private collection.

Jiang Jianyue strokes his burned shoulder and brings out the painting she had been hiding. "Then... can I give you this as compensation?"

But the man isn't satisfied. He grabs her by the waist, his voice low and hoarse. "Did you think I crossed mountains and rivers and went to all that trouble just for a few paintings?"

#I want you. I want you.#

○ A bewitching heiress x a cunning, flirtatious tycoon with both a wolfish and gentle side ○

○ He plotted this for a long, long time

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The Devil's Lawful Wife

Ya Ya once met a man on an island whose looks and bearing were both top-notch. On the beach at dusk, as the tide came in, his half-wet shirt hung open, revealing a sexy, untamed air.

That night, the man accepted her invitation into her little cabin. The hammock swayed with the waves all night long.

Afterward, they agreed not to ask each other's names and to part on good terms, forgetting their brief encounter.

A week later, Ya Ya composed herself and returned to China to meet the man her family had chosen for her.

At the lavish banquet, the man surrounded by people looked familiar. But now he had shed his former wild, unruly charm and donned the air of a refined gentleman.

"Lu Yuming." The man extended a polite, distant hand, as if they had never met.

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In the business world, Lu Yuming is known as "the Devil." He devours his opponents without a trace, his deep-set eyes full of shrewd calculation.

To Ya Ya, he bluntly declares that love is a fool's game. Marriage? Just a tactic.

Their marriage of convenience is as bland as water, and the Devil is cold as ever. He has apparently forgotten the passionate dream they shared on the island.

Before long, Ya Ya has had enough. She leaves a divorce agreement behind and runs away from home.

Later,

Newly free, she travels alone. While partying in a foreign city, she accidentally crashes into a warm chest. Looking up, she sees a man with bloodshot eyes.

"I'm that fool." In the chaos of the street, the man who has always been arrogant drops to one knee.

"Say you shouldn't have left me."

"Say you married me willingly."

"Say you love me too."

"Other than that, everything was my fault."

○ A melancholy, beautiful, stubborn girl x an oblivious love-struck tycoon known as the Devil ○

Theme: Cherish the past, treasure the present, and face the future with courage