A rotten man's genuine heart / winning her back after losing her / pure melodrama, all homegrown
Everyone says that Jiangcheng playboy Zhou Yanchi has settled down.
He's given up smoking and drinking for the sweet and innocent Ruan Mian, lets her check his phone whenever she likes, and always tells her when he's going out with his buddies.
Only he knows there are still three pinned contacts saved as "Baby" on his phone.
He's already planned to have his fun and run away on the eve of the wedding.
Everyone says Ruan Mian is naive and easy to fool.
Zhou Yanchi has her wrapped around his finger. She's learned to make soup for him and given up studying abroad for his sake.
But Ruan Mian just looks at the calendar with a cold smile.
Thirty days until she vanishes from the household registry.
Once the funeral is over, she'll be free to go back and inherit a fortune worth tens of billions.
On the thirtieth day, the day before the wedding, Ruan Mian "dies" unexpectedly.
The "funeral" goes ahead as planned. The venue is packed with guests, and mournful music fills the air.
Clutching the cold "death certificate," Zhou Yanchi stares at her smiling "portrait" in the middle of the mourning hall.
At last, he realizes that his grand escape-from-the-wedding act has gone completely wrong!
He smashes her "tombstone" like a madman, eyes bloodshot as he roars, "Ruan Ruan! Get out here and keep playing me, damn it!"
On a private island across the ocean, the real Ruan Mian sips champagne and watches the man fall apart on the live feed. She chuckles.
"Tsk, Young Master Zhou, get too deep into character and you'll lose."
Later on.
Zhou Yanchi kneels and begs her pathetically. Ruan Mian simply lifts the heel of her high-heeled shoe and grinds it over his fingers, then wipes the sole on his clothes.
"Tsk, filthy."
#We agreed to act together, so why did you fall in love first?#
#She vanished from the registry to escape, but he trapped himself by running from the wedding#
#Master hunter vs. master of disguise.
[Reader's Guide]
A playboy's redemption is bullshit.
Male lead: Obviously a scumbag in the beginning; later, he suffers through the hell of trying to win her back, quite literally.
Female lead: A master of hiding her true nature, ruthless and a better actress, always the first to run.
Power couple / intense push and pull / winning her back after losing her
Theme: Sunk costs should not factor into major decisions
