A Touch of Seduction

[An Old Flame Rekindled | A Powerful Man Going Mad for Love | Six-Year Age Gap]

Gentle, scheming faux gentleman × radiant, spirited college student

Recently, a new piece of gossip has been making the rounds among Beijing's elite.

Song Shuangyi, once known as the most cold-hearted man around, had been parking his black Cullinan outside Jing University for a whole week.

People said they'd seen Mr. Song carry a completely soaked young woman into his car. They also said she'd hurled an entire bouquet of roses at his face.

The more people dug, the more they found. Some even discovered that the obscure college student had once been involved with a younger member of the Song family.

The rumors wouldn't die down. Then, later, one of the people involved admitted it in person:

"Yes, I was the one who stole her away."

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Ren Xinghe first met Song Shuangyi at Jing University's centennial celebration.

At the time, she had been selected to greet the guests, while he was an honorary alumnus whom even the dean waited on with a smile.

During a break, she kicked off a pair of ill-fitting shoes on the stairwell. She put too much force into it, and one shoe bounced down the steps, landing right in front of him.

"I never knew Cinderella's shoe fell from above."

His tone was half-mocking, half-teasing. In the quiet stairwell, it rang out with startling clarity, enough to make her heart race.

Song Shuangyi picked up the shoe and walked over, glancing at the girl's heels, mottled with bruises.

He curled his lips in a smile that wasn't quite a smile. "Cinderella, your shoe."

/

As the least favored adopted daughter of the Ren family, Ren Xinghe never imagined that one day she would get involved with Song Shuangyi, the most prominent man in Beijing's elite circles.

Knowing the gulf between them, she made sure to prepare an escape route from the start.

Then, one day, she heard that Old Madam Song was looking for a match for her younger son, and promptly blocked every one of his contact details.

She thought that would be the end of things between them. But three days later, on a rainy night, she had just finished dinner with a suitor and returned to the foot of her rented apartment building when she was bundled into a car without a word of explanation.

The car was dimly lit, making the man's striking, sharply defined features stand out all the more.

She turned her face away and gritted her teeth. "We're over!"

Song Shuangyi gave a quiet laugh. He put his hand beneath her chin and applied just enough pressure to make her look him in the eye again.

His thumb brushed over her vivid red lips. Nonchalantly, he said, "I'm afraid I'll have to refuse."

"I told you from the start: when it comes to you, I'm determined to have you."

Ⅱ Powerful, high-ranking gentleman × college student in film and television directing

Ⅱ Devoted love, obsessive madman × clear-headed and rational

Reader's Guide:

1. Happy ending.

2. The male lead steals the female lead away from her relationship. She gets together with him after her breakup, so she is not two-timing anyone.

3. Lots of author-invented details. The main storyline follows the female lead's growth, with a slice-of-life feel.

Theme: Love and passion should never be let down.