I Seduced an Older Man [GB]

Blurb: According to her friends, Li Bai is the most dissolute alpha in the imperial capital: an untamed, shameless troublemaker with a lovestruck face that fools people, who does nothing but despicable things. She lives it up at exclusive clubs, indulging in every pleasure and luxury, spending lavishly, with a string of lovers always at her side. The only person in the Li family who can keep her in check is her nominal guardian. An unsmiling, unromantic, old-fashioned omega who always buttons his shirt all the way to the top. He punished her plenty when she was a child, all in the name of keeping her under control. The old man she couldn't stand is, to everyone else, an unattainable beauty perched high above the rest. After returning to the country, Li Bai spends three months winning this beauty over. Just as she begins to feel a little tenderness, the man turns around and dumps her, takes half her family fortune, and walks away without looking back. Well, that's just great. Li Bai laughs in disbelief, furious. Four years later, they meet again. The man is dressed in rags, reported for selling suppressants on the black market. "Let me go." In the interrogation room, the man remains elegant and aloof, his cool eyes fixed on her. "I haven't committed a crime. You have no right to arrest me without a warrant." "Get this straight." Li Bai scoffs, pulls on a pair of leather gloves, takes out a bottle of cheap glass-bottled suppressant, and gives the man's face a contemptuous, mocking pat. "If you're asking for help, you should act like it." When Duan Chujin was seventeen, he was sent to the Li family and forced to become the guardian of its eldest daughter, Li Bai. When he was twenty-two, Li Bai was shot and left unconscious in critical condition. He was locked in a glass room at the hospital, and the gland surgery nearly cost him his life. When he was twenty-eight, he accepted Li Bai's invitation to dinner. After drinking a glass of drugged wine, he grew disoriented and was thrown onto a bed. A month later, he had a child in his belly. Li Bai would never want it, and he had no intention of keeping it either. When he was thirty-two, Li Bai got hold of something she could use against him once more. [Dissolute bad woman x sharp-tongued, soft-hearted dad] At first, Li Bai gets his medical examination report and looks at him with disgust, saying only two words. "So filthy." "Did you turn to this after you ran out of my money?" Note: 1. Seven-year age gap, with the woman younger. 2. The female lead is not a virgin; the male lead is. Male-targeted angst! Pregnancy and miscarriage fiction, possibly more than once. 3. The female lead is a total scumbag! She humiliates the male lead verbally and may also mistreat him physically. (Content warning) 4. The male lead was once a puppet ruler in a position of power, but will fall into the depths of misery. Blurb written on October 5, 2023. Theme: The past is but a prologue.