Harboring Ulterior Motives

Eight-year age gap | Double-door physique difference | An old flame catches fire

Unparalleled older, fatherly man vs. stunning mixed-race sweetheart

Ten years ago, Zhou Huaichuan took over the unstable Ling family at a moment's notice.

Besides fighting bloody battles against their external enemies, he also had to look after the Ling family's only child.

He treasured her as if she were the apple of his eye. He never imagined she would secretly elope with her "boyfriend."

The day Zhou Huaichuan cornered Ling Yao at the airport was the first time she had seen him lose control. His refined, gentlemanly manner vanished. He bound her wrists with a luxury tie and called her an "ungrateful wretch who could never be raised right."

Everyone said that without Old Master Ling, Zhou Huaichuan would have died long ago. So he had never expected anything in return from the Ling family and had been utterly loyal, cherishing and indulging Ling Yao as if she were his little sister.

But when news of a marriage alliance between the Zhou and Ling families rocked Hong Kong, everyone learned that Zhou Huaichuan's greatest ambition, and the one thing he had always been plotting, was Ling Yao.

Zhou Huaichuan had never been the Ling family's savior.

He was a man with ulterior motives.

Please add the other books in the series to your collection: Wishful Thinking (Shen Hanfei x Jiang Jinlin), Bottomless Desire (Zhu Ping'an x Chen Henian), and Marriage in Name, Affair in Secret (Le Yi x Zhan Ninglou)!

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Theme: The king will always love his princess