Power Games in Beijing's Elite Circle

One drunken night, Duan Shilin unexpectedly ends up in bed with her ex-boyfriend's junior fellow student. Resting her head against his well-developed chest, Duan Shilin, who has suffered from insomnia for half a year, gets a rare good night's sleep. After that, Wen Yanqing becomes Duan Shilin's personal pillow, available whenever she calls. At three years old, Duan Shilin dreamed of having a warm padded jacket to wear. At seven, she wanted to go to school and change her fate. At eighteen, she wished to become rich in this lifetime. Now she's thirty-one, holding a high position and great power. From a penniless orphan, she's built herself up into the chairwoman of a manufacturing conglomerate. With her shrewd knack for playing on people's emotions, she has risen to prominence in both business and politics. She's wealthy and influential, and countless people rush to curry favor with her, showering her with praise. At the height of her success, Duan Shilin wants to marry a considerate, nurturing husband with a big chest, someone who can support her at home. Everyone thinks she'll marry her boyfriend Yin Xiu, a chemical engineer she's been dating for thirteen years. Yin Xiu thinks so too. Until Duan Shilin's engagement ring ends up on the hand of his bookish junior fellow student. Only then does Yin Xiu realize what's happened. Wen Yanqing never thought he'd end up in bed with the unrequited love he'd had since middle school. More precisely, Duan Shilin spent the night sleeping with her head on his chest. Back when they were students at Anqi Middle School's high school division, Duan Shilin's name was always at the top of the honor roll. She was so dazzling that Wen Yanqing, who had always been plagued by low self-esteem, could only follow her secretly like a rat hiding from the light, not daring to say more than a few words to her. He covered the walls of his room with Duan Shilin's speeches at the flag-raising ceremonies and her perfect-score model essays from Chinese exams. He could recite every one of them from memory. When he was thirteen, he finally worked up the courage to confess, only to hear that Duan Shilin had started dating someone. Wen Yanqing felt as if the sky had fallen. After graduating from university, he joined the research institute where his senior, Yin Xiu, worked. Every day, he watched that ungrateful jerk squander Duan Shilin's affection, and Wen Yanqing nearly ground his back teeth to dust. Why didn't he remember her birthday? Why didn't he reply to her messages when he wasn't even busy? Why didn't he give her a present for their anniversary? Why did he make her wait so long downstairs in the middle of winter?! Watching Duan Shilin grow colder and colder, Wen Yanqing thought darkly: If only she would break up with him. He waited and waited, and Duan Shilin really did break up with him. What he didn't expect was that the very night they broke up, his drunken unrequited love would pounce on him... [Reading Guide] * The male lead has very low self-esteem. * The female lead is 31, and the true male lead is 26. Older woman-younger man romance. The female lead has experience, while the male lead does not. One-on-one happy ending. * The female lead isn't a lovesick doormat. She was just so busy with work that she forgot to dump her ex. * The male lead is chaste in both body and mind. He has no ex-girlfriends and has never kissed or held hands with a woman. He strictly follows the code of male virtue. * The female lead is 175 cm tall, and the male lead is 190 cm tall. This is not GB! Not GB! A slightly assertive female lead does not make it GB. Look up what GB means for yourself. I don't accept claims of