Qi Zhuyi wakes up to discover that she is the black moonlight in a business-warfare novel, doomed to a miserable end for playing with the male lead's feelings.
At the start of the novel, when the male lead is still a poor kid, she falls for his looks and relentlessly pursues him until he gives in. But once she's had her fun, she dumps him for being poor.
Later, karma catches up with her. The black moonlight is abandoned by a rich man, contracts a terminal illness, and dies in a dilapidated country shack.
By then, the male lead has become an untouchable business tycoon. When he hears that Qi Zhuyi has died, he smiles coldly and leaves her body to rot in the shack.
He's cold-blooded and keeps everyone at arm's length. The last trace of warmth in him was severed long ago by the black moonlight herself.
Qi Zhuyi, after learning how her story ends: ...
I can skip the romance, but can I cross out the terminal illness too?
Just then, a System appears from nowhere, its mechanical voice coldly declaring: [As long as you follow the script, pursue him, toy with his feelings, and abandon him... helping the male lead turn to the dark side, you can avoid dying of a terminal illness and receive a hundred million in cash.]
Qi Zhuyi: !!
She agrees without hesitation. A month later, she's dating the male lead, and six months after that, she dumps him without a second thought.
The hundred million arrives on the night they break up. Remembering the male lead's bloodshot, gloomy eyes in the pouring rain, Qi Zhuyi feels guilty and transfers him a million as compensation.
**
Only after being dumped does Jiang Yufeng learn that Qi Zhuyi, who ate instant noodles and drank soon-to-expire milk with him in his rented apartment, is a rich heiress from Yancheng. Everything they shared was just a game the young lady played on a whim.
She breaks up with him without a hint of feeling, then transfers him a million to humiliate him.
Jiang Yufeng promptly sends the money back, leaves the place where his heart was broken, and heads far away to build his own business empire.
But no one knows that Jiang Yufeng carries the bloodline of the demon race. After Qi Zhuyi's abrupt affair and abandonment, he somehow ends up "pregnant"!
Years later, Jiang Yufeng returns home as a mysterious tycoon whom countless powerful people curry favor with.
Outsiders have no idea what Jiang Yufeng likes. They only know he treasures a little daughter above all else, and the identity of the child's mother is a mystery.
**
Four years later, at an auction attended by Yancheng's elite, Qi Zhuyi steps out of the restroom and turns a corner, only to bump into a sweet-smelling, soft little girl.
The little bundle on the floor lifts her head. Her exquisitely lovely face is full of grievance, and her big, beautiful eyes glisten with tears...
The wealthy birth mother she's known for less than five years looks at Qi Zhuyi, then uneasily at the little girl on the floor, who is almost a miniature version of "Qi Zhuyi."
The wealthy mother looks shocked and heartbroken. She asks tactfully, "Zhuyi, were you bullied by some heartless, awful man back then?"
That's why she secretly gave birth to a daughter without telling her family.
Heartless "awful woman" Qi Zhuyi: ...
Wait, I've only ever dated Jiang Yufeng, and men can't have babies, can they?
[1. A melodramatic, sweet romance, with a lovesick male lead who runs away with the baby]
[2. The male lead is a plant spirit. The baby is his true "heart and soul": he cuts out half his heart, buries it in a flowerpot, and waters it with his blood for ten months until it blooms and bears fruit, growing their little one~]
Theme: Rekindled love, with feelings that never fade