Heartburn

Full text thoroughly revised on August 25, 2026. Coming out at the end of the year.

◎ This story: Pure and resilient good girl vs. aloof, roguish rich kid. Redemption and a second chance at love after heartbreak. The golden boy everyone adores falls hopelessly in love with me.

In college, Jiang Suiyi and Tan Jin were worlds apart.

He was arrogant and unruly, the center of attention wherever he went. She was merely an adopted daughter from a wealthy family, living under someone else's roof.

The racing team's celebration banquet was short a guest, so Jiang Suiyi was dragged along to make up the numbers because she was pretty.

Truth or dare.

Tan Jin sat in a corner of the banquet hall, his dark eyes fixed on her. "Want to play?"

Jiang Suiyi had wanted to refuse, but they pressured her, so she hastily said, "Fine."

She had terrible luck and lost three rounds in a row. The first time, they asked if she liked anyone. The second time, they asked if the person she liked was there. The third time, Jiang Suiyi chose dare.

"Then go kiss the person you like!" the young man who came up with the dare shouted.

Reckless laughter filled the whole banquet hall. Jiang Suiyi's lashes trembled. Just as she was about to do something, she suddenly heard a glass shatter.

The man beside her tilted his head and sneered at the guy who had put her on the spot. "What's wrong with you?"

His gaze was frighteningly cold.

-

Later, at her older sister's birthday party.

As Jiang Suiyi handed over her present, she caught sight of the man standing beside her sister.

Tan Jin had a cigarette between his lips as he asked the young miss with a playful look, "Is this your little sister?"

Qin Yueru answered casually, "Yeah, she's the girl my stepmother brought with her. She's very well-behaved."

Jiang Suiyi looked at him without a word.

"Very well-behaved?" Tan Jin recalled something, then smiled without saying anything.

After the party, he walked up beside the girl and offered her a drink. On a whim, he asked, "Good girl, want to have some fun with me?"

-

Jiang Suiyi and Tan Jin were as different as heaven and earth. No one thought they made a good match.

The news of their relationship caused a sensation in their social circle, and their breakup was just as widely known.

Whenever their friends brought it up, everyone took it for granted that Young Master Tan had gotten bored and dumped her.

Years later, they were both at their class reunion. They played until midnight, and it happened to be Tan Jin's turn to ask a question.

The aloof man made a deal with her. "Suisui, truth or dare."

"Do you still like me?"

-

Only when they broke up did Tan Jin learn that the girl's approach had been carefully planned.

But after she left, he still went mad and chased her all the way to a foreign country.

In a corner of the school, Tan Jin fixed her with a frigid stare. "Jiang Suiyi, are you impossible to tame?"

He held back his anger, yet still turned and walked away, telling her, "You're more hard-hearted than I am."

-

Suisui, the years have flown by, and I can still go crazy for you at any moment.

From love at first sight to falling hopelessly in love.

The male lead is no playboy. Bittersweet romance. Pharmaceutical research and development vs. racing driver.

* I can still go crazy for you at any moment, from the song "Because of Love."

Theme: Though bound by constraints, follow your heart when you come and go.