1.
Jiang Wenxia attended her boyfriend's family banquet and met someone in private.
It was her boyfriend's eldest brother, Huo Jingshen, the Huo family's foremost heir.
The sky was dim that day. He was smoking, and thin wisps of smoke mingled around him, half veiling his icy gaze as it settled on her. The air felt suffocating.
Jiang Wenxia knew he strongly opposed her relationship with her boyfriend. She didn't want to provoke Huo Jingshen, so after nervously greeting him, she tried to walk around him.
But the man behind her called out.
He stubbed out his cigarette and sauntered over to her, his deep voice carrying a hint of menace.
"Miss Jiang, I'll give you five million. Break up with Huo Yan within a month, or you'll be responsible for the consequences."
2.
Jiang Wenxia refused to break up. Faced with a choice between five million and marrying into a wealthy family, she chose to marry into a wealthy family.
Just as she and her boyfriend were preparing to discuss marriage, he suddenly cheated on her. She was dumped, and her dream of marrying into a wealthy family fell apart.
When she looked up, she saw her boyfriend's eldest brother standing aloof on the second floor of the hall, looking down at her.
Along with him came his casual remark: "So that's all there is to it."
Jiang Wenxia's desire for revenge flared.
If Huo Jingshen looked down on her, then she would make him fall for her.
She began deliberately seducing her ex-boyfriend's older brother, using every cunning tactic she could think of.
Huo Jingshen neither rejected nor accepted her advances. He watched coldly as she schemed to get close to him and seduce him.
When a friend asked him about it, he snuffed out the cigarette in his hand with a dismissive look. "How could I ever care about someone like her?"
Yet a month later, Jiang Wenxia got what she wanted and slept with Huo Jingshen.
That day, she laughed with dazzling, brazen confidence. After arrogantly tossing out, "So that's all there is to it," she walked away.
3.
She thought their relationship was over and that she and Huo Jingshen would have nothing more to do with each other.
But at midnight a month later, Huo Jingshen showed up at her door, drunk.
He pinned her against the door. His usually calm, indifferent face was utterly unguarded as he kissed the curve of her ear in a daze, pleading, "Wenwen, don't leave me."
4.
Cold-blooded and heartless: that's how others described Huo Jingshen.
From the moment he was born, Huo Jingshen was heir to a family so wealthy and powerful that no one could touch them.
He was domineering and arrogant, with an inflated opinion of himself, and looked down on women like Jiang Wenxia, whom he considered manipulative.
So while he watched coldly as Jiang Wenxia tried every trick to please him, behind the scenes he schemed to ruin her engagement to his younger brother.
He never imagined that he would fall headlong into Jiang Wenxia's trap.
He knew he shouldn't fall under Jiang Wenxia's spell, shouldn't start dating her or sleep with her, and certainly shouldn't risk half his life looking for her...
But of all the things he shouldn't have done, the worst was this:
falling in love with Jiang Wenxia and never regretting it.
Theme: Arrogance kept me from accepting you, and prejudice kept me from loving anyone else.
