There Was a Trap, and I Walked Right Into It

Yang Shuyi, director of asset management at Zhengqing Group, has been dating Zheng Qingque, the group's eldest young master, for three years. Everyone finds it astonishing that this playboy, who used to change girlfriends more often than clothes, has finally settled down.

Just before they were about to discuss marriage, Zheng Qingque hired a junior student as his personal assistant.

The junior can wear a hundred faces. She can gaze at him with doe eyes and say, "Senior, don't blame President Yang. I'm just stupid. I wish I were as capable as you."

She can raise an eyebrow and taunt him, too. "President Yang, men need to be coaxed. You're poor but still put on airs. Who could stand having a rich young master coax you all day?"

In the past, whenever a girl asked for his contact information, Zheng Qingque would immediately buy flowers and apologize to Yang Shuyi, soothing her. But times have changed, and now he can even say to her, "Other men's girlfriends can turn a blind eye. Why can't you learn to?"

A breakup, a trap set, a resignation. It took Yang Shuyi just three days to disappear from Zheng Qingque's world.

From stubbornly insisting that a breakup meant a breakup, to crying her eyes out, to frantically turning the whole capital upside down looking for her, Zheng Qingque took three days, too.

Yang Shuyi was like a mermaid turned to foam, vanishing at the slightest touch.

On the day Zhengqing Group's scandal broke and its stock hit the daily limit down, the youngest daughter of the wealthy Lian family made her first public appearance. Lian Jingchen, the family's dignified head, affectionately put an arm around Yang Shuyi's shoulders and introduced her to everyone. "My younger sister."

Yang Shuyi raised her glass from across the room and smiled at Zheng Qingque.

From her lips, Zheng Qingque made out the words: "The stock crash is my parting gift to you. Do you like it?"

Yang Shuyi couldn't understand what she'd done wrong, or why every relationship of hers ended so terribly.

The playboy Zheng Qingque cheated on her. Xiang Bai, who prided himself on self-reliance, was full of schemes. The sweet younger guy Wei Tingxuan was quite nice, but unfortunately, he was Zheng Qingque's own younger brother.

With her heart repeatedly broken, she was fortunate to have her considerate older brother, Lian Jingchen, patiently keep her company through her heartbreak.

"Brother, there's no man in the world more dependable than you," Yang Shuyi said.

Until she saw the junior walk into Lian Jingchen's office, smiling brightly. "President Lian, Zheng Qingque, Xiang Bai, and Wei Tingxuan have all been dealt with. I guarantee Miss Yang will feel sick just hearing their names."

Lian Jingchen parted his lips. "Well done."

He looked straight toward the doorway and smiled at Yang Shuyi, hiding just outside it. "We've been siblings for long enough. It's time she learned how I feel."

[Reading Guide]:

1. The male lead is Lian Jingchen. The leads are not blood-related and are not registered in the same household. They are lawful citizens of Jinjiang.

2. So much melodrama. So much melodrama. An overwhelming amount of melodrama.

3. Zheng Qingque gets his groveling arc, and it ends with him cremated. The leads are endgame.

Theme: Have the courage to pursue love