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Jiang Yuyu offended an investor and was dropped by her agency. Overnight, she became an independent entertainer: no company, no assistant, no resources, just one equally independent agent who stuck with her through thick and thin. Her agent didn't want her struggling at the very bottom of the industry and getting sick from endless networking dinners, so the next day, they slapped a note with a phone number down in front of her. "Here's a powerful patron for you. Go cling to him!" Grateful for her agent's kindness, Jiang Yuyu diligently sent him three flirtatious messages a day. The powerful patron remained unmoved, so Jiang Yuyu gritted her teeth and sent him a few sexy, revealing photos. Her persistence paid off: the powerful patron invited her to meet at a restaurant. As Jiang Yuyu sat in the restaurant, her agent called with some terrible news. One digit in the phone number they'd given her was wrong. The person she'd been exchanging flirtatious messages with for the past two weeks wasn't the powerful patron after all. Jiang Yuyu froze. Then she watched Jiang Minxing sit down opposite her, dressed in a suit. He was her university finance professor. Jiang Yuyu broke into a cold sweat and stammered: "Hello, Professor Jiang." - Recently, a hot post on Zhihu has been getting an avalanche of replies... Post author: Help! I'm a B-list actress being suppressed by an investor and on the verge of being shelved. To make a comeback, I thought I was messaging a big-shot CEO, so I sent him flirtatious, suggestive texts for two weeks, along with some sexy, revealing photos. But when we met in person, I found out he was my former university professor. What do I do? 1L: Atone with your life! 2L: Agreed with the above. 3L: How revealing are we talking? Bikini pics? Post author: … A little while later, the post author replied again: Actually, maybe it's not as bad as I thought. He doesn't remember me as his student, and he's planning to pay me twenty million and give me access to three top-tier drama scripts if I pretend to be his passionately in-love girlfriend for three months. Should I agree? 1L: Don't agree. Let me take your place! 2L: You can't handle this, 1L. Twenty million! Let me, please! Several months later, a Zhihu user bumped the thread and asked for an update. At three in the morning, the original poster, Jiang Yuyu herself, replied: Damn, who can outplay an older man! Jiang Minxing is a real dog! He remembered who I was all along. He asked me to pretend to be his girlfriend because he had ulterior motives and was after me! Poor me, I played the fake girlfriend diligently for three months, and then he turned around and pounced on me. He's utterly shameless! A Zhihu user asked: I only care whether you made a comeback. Post author: +…Thanks to the older man's generous financial support, I'm wildly famous now. A carefree B-list actress who only wants to make a comeback vs. a seemingly proper but truly devious university professor A secret powerful man's unrequited love story / I got pounced on after agreeing to date a powerful man A little tip: Romance is the main focus, with a little showbiz on the side. And yes, this time it's truly a sweet romance! They barely knew each other while their professor-student relationship was ongoing, and there was nothing romantic between them. Synopsis saved on March 20, 2022. ----Next novel: Sweet Dreams---- Three years ago, Wen Yao returned to Jiangnan with her grandmother and spent three years studying there. When she came back to Beicheng, her father had remarried. She had gained a stepsister two years older than her and lost her fiance, Jiang Yao. Her stepsister and fiance conspired together and married, never missing a chance to mock Wen Yao. She didn't care, devoting herself to her studies. But her grandmother was so worried she could hardly sleep, determined to find her a marriage alliance with a family even more powerful than Jiang Yao's. Her search led to the Qi family, the wealthiest in Beicheng. Thanks to her lifelong friendship with the Qi family's matriarch, the Qis agreed to have one of their virtuous, exceptionally handsome men become engaged to Wen Yao. The Qi family had three outstanding young men, each a paragon of his generation. The eldest was already married with children, and the youngest was still in school. That left the second son, Qi Sili: exceptionally handsome, young, and already capable of standing on his own. But he was so aloof and uninterested in women that his friends jokingly called him the Monk Second. Grandma Wen figured that marrying a man who was practically a monk was still better than marrying a two-timing scumbag. Besides, Qi Sili was far more capable than Jiang Yao, so she made up her mind: It was settled! So, just after her fiance betrayed her, Wen Yao became engaged to Qi Sili. She didn't take this new fiance, who wasn't a monk but might as well have been, seriously. Whenever people asked her about him and she couldn't brush them off, she'd smile sweetly and say, "Qi Sili knows more about that. Go ask him." - Qi Sili's friends heard that he had a clever, beautiful university student for a fiancee. When they met up at a bar, they all asked if she was pretty. Thinking of Wen Yao, whom he had never met, Qi Sili replied without much interest, "She should be... pretty?" His friends: "?" What do you mean, should be? As they were talking, a beautiful woman walked past downstairs. One of his friends pointed to her and asked, "Compared to her, who's prettier, your fiancee or this woman?" Qi Sili didn't even look and said, "My fiancee." Just then, someone called out to the woman downstairs: "Wen Yao!" Only then did Qi Sili look up, meeting Wen Yao's gaze as she turned to find the person calling her. Her almond-shaped eyes were as clear as a deep pool, and her cheeks were like lotus blossoms. She really was stunning. - After Wen Yao and Qi Sili got engaged, Qi Sili never contacted her, not even adding her on WeChat. Just as she was about to forget her monk-like fiance, one day she received a friend request. It was from Qi Sili. Then came the keys to their marital home. Then came dinner together. One rainy day, Qi Sili drove her back to their marital home. Feeling awkward, she took a hot shower in the guest bathroom and put on some clothes that had been dried in the machine. It was late, and she was about to say goodbye and head back to her dorm when Qi Sili handed her a cup of warm milk. His face was cool and composed, but his eyes were dark as he said, "It's raining hard. Don't go back. Stay here tonight." Wen Yao: "..." He continued, "Our relationship is legal, after all. Half this house is yours." Wen Yao: "..." When Wen Yao and Qi Sili moved into their marital home, both grandmothers worried that the aloof, monk-like man and the mild-mannered girl wouldn't get along, would quarrel, and end up sleeping in separate rooms. They held back as long as they could, but in the end they couldn't resist and arranged to sneak into the house one night. As soon as they entered, the two grandmothers came face-to-face with Qi Sili, who had just come out of the master bedroom. Qi Sili was momentarily taken aback, then quickly straightened his shirt. There was still desire in his eyes as he greeted them: "Grandma." Grandma Qi thought she glimpsed a few scratch marks on the abs of her grandson, who was never involved with romance. Before she could get a closer look, a pair of slender, pale wrists wrapped around Qi Sili's narrow waist from behind. A soft, sweet voice coaxed, "Don't go. Put me to sleep." Grandma Qi and Grandma Wen exchanged glances, their eyes shining: Hey, it worked! Sweet, gentle rich girl x aloof, abstinent monk-like man Sweet married life / The male lead isn't really a monk, he just lived like one before he met the female lead. Theme: Realize your own worth