Second chance at love / Star-crossed lovers / The powerful one bows his head / Unconventional coercion
A master manipulator who excels at sweet-talking x A humorous, mature man in power
Ye Tong knows all too well that her privileged life comes with a hidden price: her future marriage is a bargaining chip.
Since a political marriage is inevitable, she might as well choose the best candidate.
Among a group of rich playboys, she sets her sights on Liang Siyuan. The Liang family is powerful and prestigious, and its only son is as dazzling as the moon.
So she corners him and rises on tiptoe to kiss him by force.
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At a gathering of the social elite, glasses clink and the room buzzes with conversation.
Liang Siyuan sits at the head of the table, his expression cool and calm. He holds the person in his arms and peels shrimp with elegant, practiced ease, while Ye Tong toys with his tie between her fingertips.
She nestles against him like a languid kitten, eyes half-closed as she waits to be fed.
When someone asks when the wedding will be, Ye Tong says nothing. She simply takes Liang Siyuan's shrimp-feeding finger into her mouth and gently licks it as he replies, "We're getting things ready. It won't be long."
In the end, no one could have guessed that the wedding would become Miss Ye's perfect smokescreen for escaping her family's control.
When she ran away from the wedding, she left without a backward glance, racing toward the freedom she had always dreamed of.
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Years later, they meet again at a drinking party. In a corner, Ye Tong fends off a client's attempts to make her drink while taking another look at her old flame.
He's still impeccably dressed in a suit, sitting at the head of the table, poised and dignified, with everyone vying for his attention.
She thinks, Has he gotten even more handsome over the past few years?
I wonder if he's still as good in bed as he used to be.
She assumes, as the saying goes, that enemies grow especially hostile when they meet. She's wrong.
The morning light gilds the space beside her. The man's features are deep and familiar, the same ones she's kissed countless times.
Liang Siyuan closes the file and leans toward her unhurriedly, gripping her chin.
As she struggles, Ye Tong catches sight of the words on the cover: "Marriage Agreement." The black text on white paper is painfully familiar. It's the very one she signed before.
She pretends not to have seen it. "Sorry, I got carried away after drinking, so..."
"So what?"
Liang Siyuan's thumb brushes her slightly swollen lips, his voice hoarse. "You clung to me all night, begging for more. Weren't you awfully clingy? Why are you avoiding me now?"
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From beginning to end, Liang Siyuan noticed every little thing she did. He willingly played along, even deliberately tempting her. It was only a diversion from his otherwise boring life, after all.
Until the day of the wedding, when the hunter was strangled by a canary in the damp rainy season...
◆ Reading Guide: One couple, both virgins, happy ending.
Disclaimer: The heroine is a shameless liar and a master at sweet-talking, but her heart is as hard as iron!! Because of her family, she worships freedom. She truly loved the hero, but she also truly used him as a means of escaping her family. She's not a morally perfect role model.
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