The Capital's Charming Minister

[Top-tier privileged young heir x seductive, calculating beauty; both are each other's first]

During the summer vacation of her junior year, Ruan Suo went to the Western Frontier and met Gu Haobai, a friend of Su Yuchu.

He drove a military jeep and wore a short-sleeved camouflage shirt. His long legs were wrapped in green military trousers. He waited for her outside the train station, leaning against the car door with a cigarette between his thin lips.

"You're Ruan Suo, right? Su Yuchu asked me to look after you." The western sun sparkled in his eyes as he looked at her, making his gaze seem hazy and elusive.

*

Later, back in Beicheng, at a gathering attended by the city's prominent young heirs, Ruan Suo arrived in a designer strapless evening gown, elegant and sophisticated. Su Yuchu, Beicheng's most famous playboy, was delighted and praised her in front of everyone. "My girlfriend is so obedient. If I tell her to go east, she wouldn't dare go west. See, she's graduated now, but she was supposed to go back to Ning City. I made some arrangements, and now she obediently stays by my side."

Every man there envied the playboy for always having a sweet, devoted girl willing to give everything for him.

Everyone knew Su Yuchu had more than just Ruan Suo.

Ruan Suo looked up at the man sitting in the shadows, smoking.

A crimson love bite marked his Adam's apple, left there when she and he had been tangled together in the car just hours earlier.

He listened impassively as the people in the room talked about Ruan Suo, cigarette in hand. In the end, he grew tired of it and got up to leave.

*

When she fell for him, he told her he already had someone in his heart. Because of those words, the girl who had always been so obedient plotted her way forward, first seducing his friend, then seducing him, until the day he became hers.

[Before You Start Reading]

- Early on: a cool, handsome, self-disciplined border defense officer x a seemingly sweet, seductive college student with a mischievous streak. Later: a ruthless venture-capital tycoon with polished manners x a bewitching investment banker.

- Male lead: Gu Haobai; second male lead: Su Yuchu; female lead: Ruan Suo. All three are virgins. The female lead and second male lead do not get physical; she and the male lead do.

- Important content warning: The pacing is slow. The theme is [A Young Woman's Secret Crush]. The female lead is calculating. She has secretly loved the male lead for years, but since she can't get close to him, she uses the second male lead to find a way into the male lead's life.

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