Obsessive doll restorer × vivacious social butterfly at a bar
Mad dog × handler
Gu Xitang's first impression of Li Wansheng was at a rainy alleyway entrance.
Li Wansheng's long skirt swayed before her eyes, crimson as fire, scorching her heart.
Gu Xitang's second impression of Li Wansheng was at the children's home.
Li Wansheng wore a qipao, poised and elegant, radiating charm.
A brown teddy bear lay peacefully in the woman's arms.
That was how Gu Xitang remembered her benefactor.
Later, the seam along the teddy bear's spine came undone. Gu Xitang stitched it up again and again, only for it to come apart once more.
Three years later, a drunk Li Wansheng barged into Gu Xitang's bedroom.
Stepping on the shabby teddy bear, she couldn't help laughing. "It's so worn out and tattered. Just throw it away."
"When you sponsored me," Gu Xitang pressed her against the wall, suppressing her burning desire, "did you think the same thing?"
Back when Gu Xitang was a student, her benefactor Li Wansheng was a social butterfly.
By day, she worked in auto repair. By night, she drank with customers at a bar.
But Gu Xitang knew that even Li Wansheng's name was fake.
Only later did Gu Xitang realize that she herself was the doll whose seams had come undone.
For an academic exchange, Gu Xitang arrived at a luxury design gala.
Standing there, she once again witnessed the most bewitching shade of red.
At last, Gu Xitang understood that everything about Li Wansheng had been a lie.
There was no mechanic, no bar hostess.
Only the pampered young lady of the Li family.
As the host, Li Wansheng swirled the red wine in her glass, seated on the highest tier of the banquet platform.
She gave a dazzling smile and tapped Gu Xitang's cheek with the chilled glass.
"Doll Gu, won't you come have a drink with me?"
Gu Xitang never expected that this one drink would become a trap, leading her astray and dragging her into a wager.
They met again five years later.
Rumor had it that Gu Xitang had long since changed her name and surname, and was about to celebrate her engagement to the Cheng family's heiress.
Meanwhile, in the dead of night aboard the Arnos, waves battered the ship as the darkness blurred into intimacy.
"When we're having such a good time," Li Wansheng said, tracing the fresh bite marks on Gu Xitang's neck with her fingertip and curling her lips in amusement, "shouldn't you let your fiancee know over video?"
"She said we're very much alike, but only I know that I'm her imitation."
*Six-year age gap; romance begins only after they are both adults.
Theme: Love life
