[Sweet-faced, levelheaded beauty of a designer x devoted, obsessive scion of a wealthy family] Hidden darkness
1.
Her name was Mu Tong. She seemed obedient, but was steady and calculating. Like a “black sheep” who didn’t belong among the others.
But her target had never been the sheep around her. It was the wolves.
2.
At fifteen, she lost her family and learned that they had all been killed by one person.
In a single night, she worked out what her next steps would be and planned a scheme that would take more than a decade to unfold. From then on, half her life revolved around this one goal.
From middle school through college, she excelled, collecting scholarships and unwanted love letters alike.
But she never once dated.
She knew she shouldn’t waste her energy on love and romance.
Besides, the very “thing” she despised most would become her most crucial bargaining chip.
3.
Over the course of several years,
she befriended women from wealthy families, chose the person best suited to be her partner, and gradually became her closest friend.
This was the first person she set up.
She regularly donated her panda blood to the daughter of a fashion designer, gaining access to resources that others would struggle for years to obtain.
This was the second person she set up.
...So many others. Every single one was a gamble she had made.
At last, the day arrived. She had planned everything down to the last detail, yet at a fashion show attended by many business tycoons, she deliberately left behind her asthma medication. When an attack struck, she grabbed a man’s hand and held on tight...
4.
The man’s name was Qi Jingchen.
When she was fifteen and saw him in a newspaper, she chose him as her target. Back then, he was just a fresh-faced young man a few years older than her. Now, just as she had predicted, he had inherited his family’s power.
However, from what she knew, Qi Jingchen had changed completely after his mother’s death and had become difficult to read. Using him would be a challenge. This was the only gamble she had miscalculated.
But her time was limited, and she had no other options.
Besides, what brought her down could also bring her success. Though Qi Jingchen was exceptionally handsome, he had no romantic history at all. Choosing him would spare her a lot of trouble.
She gripped his hand tightly, deliberately revealing the blood donation certificate she had prepared for him.
Life or death. She was taking a gamble: a thrilling start, or an abrupt end...
[Notes]
1. The female lead’s target is not the male lead.
2. Both leads are each other’s only ones.
Theme: People can live for a goal, or they can live simply to stay alive.
