A calculating, strategic schemer x an innocent young heiress
Stealing someone's love / possessive pursuit, with simmering tension
In this self-serving age, everyone is ambitious.
The Xiang family is no exception.
Hoping to get a share of the entertainment industry, and calling in favors from the older generation, the family sends Xiang Chenxi to work at Heng Corporation. She becomes the special assistant to Heng Zihuai, the man who single-handedly brought the company back from the brink.
Several months after joining Heng Corporation, Xiang Chenxi has never met Heng Zihuai.
But she doesn't mind.
In fact, she hopes their relationship will remain that of strangers forever.
Then one day, on a stormy, rain-soaked night in the capital, someone knocks on the Xiang family's door.
When it opens, the young master of the Heng family, rumored in business circles to be as ruthless as a scorpion, pulls a notebook from inside his clothes, shakes the raindrops off it, and holds it out to the person inside. "You forgot this?" He remembers her always carrying this notebook and treating it as something important.
She stands silently in the doorway. "Keep it. I don't want to learn anymore."
Heng Zihuai's gaze darkens, but his voice remains patient and gentle. "Then what do you like? I'll learn that."
The woman is even colder. "There's no need. I already have a new teacher."
Everything goes dark. The door clicks shut, and under the dim light, she is pinned in a cramped space. Raindrops spatter across the back of her hand.
Heng Zihuai lifts a raindrop with his fingertip and traces it across her lips, patiently rubbing it in. The damp water is cold, and as it runs down from her mouth, it leaves a pang of sourness.
He says, "I don't agree."
*
The year Heng Corporation teetered on the brink, eighteen-year-old Heng Zihuai was pushed into that seat. He maneuvered carefully, bringing the company back from the dead.
Afterward, he drew the attention of many heiresses from prominent families, but he paid them no mind.
Rumor had it that this was all because he had fallen for a woman, and that woman was also the beloved of the Lu family's young master. An even wilder rumor claimed Heng Zihuai had locked her up in a villa and kept her like a caged songbird, even going so far as to offend the Lu family's young master.
No one believed that Heng Zihuai, who was calculating to the core, cared only for profit, and put Heng Corporation above everything else, would let his feelings cloud his judgment.
That is, until a netizen photographed the Lu family's young master standing outside Heng Zihuai's home, furiously pounding on the door.
Theme: The cat and the mouse
