● An old house catching fire / five-year age gap / long-planned pursuit. A gentle, modest, guiding male lead x a fake heiress
Lin Shutong and Nan Sinian first crossed paths when she wandered into his room by mistake, mistook him for her boyfriend, and nearly kissed him.
What Lin Shutong remembered best about that day was the way he looked at her, like glimmers of light floating on the surface of deep water.
Nan Sinian, heir to the Dihao Hotel, came from a wealthy family and treated people with warmth and humility. Someone like him should never have had much to do with her.
But after deciding to break up with her boyfriend, Lin Shutong went to her tutoring job as usual and discovered that her student happened to be Nan Sinian's nephew.
After the lesson, heavy rain kept her from leaving, and she was forced to spend the night at Nan Sinian's house. There, she caught him alone in the study, clutching the clothes she had changed out of after getting soaked in the rain.
Books were piled on the dark brown wooden shelves. Nan Sinian sat in a chair in front of them, his fair cheeks faintly flushed. He lifted his chin and panted, his eyes hazy. He looked nothing like his usual cool, abstinent self.
Only then did Lin Shutong realize he had been plotting to get her all along.
Later, after they officially got together, Lin Shutong knew that the difference in their status meant they had no future. So when she learned that Nan Sinian's family planned to find him a fiancée, she decisively broke up with him and left.
They met again when, at a friend's request, she pretended to be his girlfriend and went to meet his family. She ran into Nan Sinian at her friend's home.
Nan Sinian turned out to be her friend's cousin. Their breakup had been unpleasant, but now they could still wordlessly pretend not to know each other.
During the meal, a friend who knew nothing about their past asked her to bring Nan Sinian some tea.
Lin Shutong lowered her eyes calmly and obediently handed him the tea. She keenly felt his little finger brush against her palm, ever so lightly. Whether it was intentional or not, she looked up, and their eyes met. His gaze was dark.
The man, so quiet and emotionally distant in the eyes of outsiders, finally went mad. With a door between them and the others, Nan Sinian pinned her against the wall from behind.
He lowered his head and kissed her back, leaving damp red marks on her skin. Outside the door, her friend called for her. He was waiting for her to come out and keep pretending to be his girlfriend in front of his parents.
Sensing her distraction, Nan Sinian bit her shoulder and sneered, "What? Want him to come in and watch?"
Lin Shutong gritted her teeth. "You're sick."
Nan Sinian gave a faint, unconcerned smile and bent down to gently bite her earlobe. "If I could steal you away from someone once, I can do it a second time."
"Can he make you feel this full?"
SC, HE. The male lead looks abstinent, but behind the scenes he's been plotting all along how to take the female lead by force.
Theme: Live toward the light
