[Pure-looking, ambitious little sister with extremely thick skin x gentle on the surface, dark beneath, utterly lovestruck and deeply wounded young nobleman who secretly plots in the shadows (truly turns dark)]
When Xia Zhiyan was young, her childhood sweetheart and unrequited love, Zhao Mochen, went bankrupt and was taken in by a rich woman. Rumor had it that the wealthy tycoon only liked clean, quiet young men who were still virgins. Back then, Xia was powerless. When she saw him get into the rich woman's car, she nearly ground her teeth to dust, but could only bid him farewell through her tears: "Zhao Mochen, when I'm rich, come be with me. I won't look down on you!"
The incident had a lasting effect on Xia Zhiyan's values, planting a dark seed in her young heart.
As an adult, Xia Zhiyan wasn't very satisfied with her current boyfriend, Qi Junheng, even though he was a darling of the heavens, adored by all, and breathtakingly handsome. He was so clingy that she felt she had no freedom, and he would do it with her so much that she felt she was becoming depraved.
The problem was, he was an important investor in her project, and she couldn't afford to offend him. Their relationship slowly teetered on the brink of collapse, with him constantly ending her overtime early and them having so much sex that she lost sleep.
He was blocking her path to wealth and power. She had to give up sex.
After Xia Zhiyan's company went public, she arranged for Qi Junheng to cash out and leave, then broke up with him.
On the day they broke up, Xia Zhiyan seized the chance to use his sudden appearance of a fiancee as an excuse, making a perfectly plausible and self-righteous case for ending things. Who could have guessed that Qi Junheng, waiting outside her home in the chilly dew all night, would happen to see Zhao Mochen, now a rising star in tech, looking red-eyed as he said to her, "Yan Yan, congratulations on going public. You once said that when you were rich, I could come be with you. Does that still count?"
A raging storm rose in Qi Junheng's eyes. He seemed like a ghost hovering on the chilly mountainside, his voice icy as he asked, "Xia Zhiyan, did you break up with me because of him?"
Xia Zhiyan's scalp tightened. "..."
Oh no.
[Reading guide:
The male lead is Qi Junheng. The heroine is rather oblivious and loves her career most. She likes the male lead, but she's very good at eliminating distractions. When she realizes she's falling into depravity, she tries to give up sex, only to run into a spectacular love-triangle showdown.
The male lead is deeply in love with her. He clearly tries to hold back, but she still finds him annoying. When she "gives him up," he wrongly believes that she was only using him all along and only ever loved the second male lead. He turns dark, loses control, and goes mad. Truly turns dark, truly turns dark, truly turns dark. He's intense, and the heroine discovers that's exactly what she likes.
The second male lead, Zhao Mochen, is beautiful, strong, and tragic. He suffered a great deal before finally becoming a tech tycoon. The heroine has always been his unrequited love. She thinks he was taken in by a rich woman, but he wasn't. The second male lead has had a hard life, and the heroine will sympathize with him, which will only make the male lead go even crazier.
One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced.]
Theme: Women's growth
