A coquettish, beauty-loving, spoiled celebrity who has loved handsome men all her life x a gentle yet formidable business tycoon with a somewhat fatherly streak
Ling Luo spent fourteen years as the little princess of the Lu family, and fourteen years trailing after her cousin, Lu Shenshan. The summer he went abroad to study, she was suddenly told that she was the unlucky child who had been switched at birth. She had no choice but to return to her rightful place.
They met again ten years later.
She was a low-profile actress, taken by her director to a dinner with an influential patron.
Lu Shenshan had just returned to the country, and he was a tycoon even the influential patrons fawned over.
Her status as a Lu heiress was fake, but she believed that her sibling bond with Lu Shenshan was real, truer than the scriptures Tang Sanzang brought back.
So when she got drunk, she clung to his leg, called him big brother, and coyly pleaded with him in a soft, sweet voice.
The guests whispered among themselves, remarking that the young lady was surprisingly good at seducing men.
After dinner, Lu Shenshan carried Ling Luo home in full view of everyone.
Chen Jun had worked for Lu Shenshan for seven years, but he had never been as terrified as he was now.
The tall man stood in the doorway. Every word he uttered carried an unmistakable weight of authority. "Chen Jun, you had better know what you're saying."
Chen Jun looked at his boss, who was in pajamas and seemed to have just finished showering, and nearly burst into tears. "It's absolutely true! She's your sister, Lu Yike. She only changed her name to Ling Luo ten years ago!"
The man was silent for a long time. Then he looked at Chen Jun again and warned him in a low voice:
"Don't let anyone know I didn't recognize her."
With Lu Shenshan doting on her as her big brother, Ling Luo could practically do whatever she wanted in show business.
But it was a real shame that at twenty-four, she still hadn't found those eight abs she could use as a slide.
So she called her handsome, well-built childhood friend and said she wanted to make good on their childhood house-playing promise.
The hotel room they had arranged was dark.
Ling Luo felt her way toward the man on the sofa and boldly gave his abs a couple of squeezes. "Wow, you've been working out!"
The next instant, a familiar masculine scent mingled with a faint trace of tobacco drifted into her nose. Ling Luo's heart leapt, and she stumbled backward.
In the darkness, the man exhaled a puff of smoke, his dark brown eyes half narrowed. "What, Keke doesn't like them?"
The one she loves is right before her eyes, yet she cannot confess her feelings.
Reader's guide:
1. The heroine is a fake heiress and has no blood relation to the hero. She returned to her biological parents at fourteen.
2. There is an age gap. The hero is seven years older and spoils her, with a somewhat fatherly streak.
3. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. The heroine genuinely loves handsome men and is rather selfish in romance, not the self-sacrificing type.
4. The heroine is only spoiled around the hero and her parents. She acts normally with others.
5. The amnesia plot in the original outline wasn't working, so I rewrote it. Apologies to the lovely readers who had bookmarked the original.
Revised 2023.11.06
Theme: Facing yourself honestly
