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Possessive, domineering business tycoon × resilient, bright botanist
A sweet, sunny girl doesn't know the tycoon's true nature, and is forced to fall helplessly under his spell
Blurb:
Mention Tan Shishen, and everyone says this cold, hard-hearted man is a business genius. The methods it took to elevate the obscure Tan family to its current standing are plain to see!
Yet this man, so uninterested in women and so abstinent that even his rivals were helpless against him,
grabbed the hand of a waitress at a matchmaking dinner with the eldest daughter of the Xu family and asked, "Will you marry me?"
To study the endangered dove tree, Ruan Zhi sneaks into the Tan residence as a maid, never imagining she'd run into the one person she least wants to see!
No one knows what happened between her and Tan Shishen, and no one would ever guess that she abandoned him for a million yuan.
She has no idea whether the fake marriage is meant as revenge or punishment. But she knows one thing for certain: this is a man she can't afford to offend...
[Didn't you say you loved money? I've got plenty.]
[I love money, but I don't love you.]
[Suit yourself.]
[I'll leave once I've finished using you.]
[Suit yourself.]
Later, Ruan Zhi is pinned against the glass walls of the greenhouse at the Tan residence.
The man drops his disguise and kisses her fragrant neck. "Suit yourself? But what I said was... 'I'll follow you.'"
In public, he's a cold, abstinent tycoon. In private, he's clingy and dangerously obsessive with her.
She thinks their reunion is just a coincidence, not knowing that he's already laid a trap from which she can't escape.
Reading guide:
1. Both leads are virgins; happy ending. The male lead seems domineering but is actually a hopeless romantic. The female lead is gentle and resilient, with her own career arc.
2. A groveling pursuit after the wife leaves, with threats and inducements. The male lead is a self-deluding, obsessive man, genuinely mentally ill and constantly struggling to control his emotions. He'll recover later.
3. The botanical details are intended to be as accurate as possible, but may differ from reality to serve the plot.
[The gardenia symbolizes everlasting love and protection]
Please follow my upcoming novel, Pretending to Dote: Qiao Muxue × Gu Yan, sweet, well-behaved girl × cold, calculating man.
[Fake step-sibling romance | Scheming for power | Groveling pursuit after the wife leaves]
With her mother gravely ill and on the brink of death, Qiao Muxue is desperate when a mysterious person saves her mother and takes her to an unfamiliar villa. The condition is simple: she only has to stay there obediently.
The homeowner she's never met, a coffee cup still warm from someone's touch, pajamas that fit her perfectly, a light touch on her forehead in the dead of night...
He's everywhere, yet always hidden in the shadows.
Qiao Muxue thinks she's being kept like a pet, not knowing that the person in the darkness is staring with bloodshot eyes, day after day restraining the urge to destroy her.
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At a party, her friend points out a handsome man in the banquet hall and quietly tells her he's an annoying suitor. Wanting to help her friend get away, Qiao Muxue walks over in her high heels...
The moment she looks down, a terrifying darkness stirs in the man's eyes!
He grabs her wrist and drags her into a pitch-black room. His burning palm presses against the back of her slender neck as he says in a low, icy voice, "I haven't even made a move yet... and you've come straight to me?"
"What?" Qiao Muxue looks at him, her clear eyes full of confusion.
She thinks she can leave whenever she wants, unaware that she's already fallen into his trap.
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Only outside a hospital room does she hear with her own ears the man who had doted on her say in an icy voice, "I got close to her just to get revenge on you. I want your daughter to know what it feels like to be abandoned."
Only then does she realize that he's the stepson her mother abandoned, and she's the younger sister who took his place. All his tenderness, affection, and late-night gazes were part of a carefully planned torment!
Qiao Muxue leaves quietly, leaving behind the bank card and a note: "Thank you for saving my mother. Goodbye, brother."
Later, he searches the whole city, his eyes red, and begs her, "Don't call me your brother... Please."
She looks at him and suddenly smiles. "Brother, this isn't right."
Reading guide:
1. Both leads are virgins; happy ending.
2. The male lead is calculating, taking things one step at a time, and an obsessive schemer.
3. Fake step-sibling romance. The leads are not blood-related.
4. The male lead falls first without realizing it. He only understands after the female lead leaves, then pursues her in a desperate bid to win her back.
Moral: Saving endangered plants is an urgent matter
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