Where Can I Run?

Five years after graduating from college, Xie Ketiao returned to her hometown drowning in bank debt after her startup failed. To secure a stable life, she had no choice but to follow her parents’ advice and prepare for the civil service exam. Unexpectedly, she ran into Liang Meiyi, the heiress of a local industrial tycoon’s family. The heiress made her an offer: “Pretend to be my girlfriend. I’ll pay you this much every month.” Xie Ketiao looked at the figure on the contract and couldn’t help swallowing. She couldn’t help remembering that summer in her third year of college, when she entered a villa in the wealthy district for the first time to tutor Liang Meiyi in Chinese after she had just returned from abroad. But her most vivid memory was the day she quit her job, when the two of them were tangled together in the Liang family’s basement. In the end, she fled in a panic. Now she had no idea where she could run. * Back then, Liang Meiyi was too young and thought she could use her body to keep someone who didn’t love her. Now she knew that probably wouldn’t work, but money might. A downcast, good-hearted office worker × a sickly princess-syndrome heiress Moral: Be self-reliant and strong