Wishing for Golden Gardenias

○ Main story complete, bonus chapters updating. 🏵 All-male-leads romance centered on a universally adored heroine, love-triangle chaos, female lead is not a virgin; male leads are. Her name is Zhu Jinzhi. She is the youngest and most promising mathematician in China. - The strategic foresight project she was responsible for ended in failure. The leader who had always supported Zhu Jinzhi told her to take a temporary “break,” relax, and wait for the organization to call on her again. Zhu Jinzhi nodded obediently, bought a plane ticket, and planned to vacation in Tahiti. Instead, she was caught in a plane crash. By sheer luck, Zhu Jinzhi survived and made her way to a private beach. In a daze, she was dragged in to make up the numbers, then, just as inexplicably, caught the eye of a powerful man. The powerful man was gentle and distinguished. He held her in his arms and asked softly, “How old are you?” Zhu Jinzhi thought it over. The information ordinary people could find about her would probably still say she was in college. So the twenty-seven-year-old Zhu Jinzhi said without a hint of shame, “Eighteen.” The man smiled. “So young.” Only later did Zhu Jinzhi learn that Wen Xuezhong was thirty-three. He knew full well how big the gap between them was, yet still asked her to be his girlfriend. After getting together with Wen Xuezhong, Zhu Jinzhi became a kept woman in everyone’s eyes. She entered the world of the old-money elite and their wealthy, powerful families, but remained completely composed because she could walk away whenever she wanted. Zhu Jinzhi stayed at the Wen residence to keep Wen Xuezhong company while doing math problems every day, until a call suddenly came in from her ex-boyfriend number one. As soon as she answered, the person on the other end started crying. Ex-boyfriend number one: “Zhu Jinzhi, you’re so cruel. Were you really never going to tell me you were still alive?” Zhu Jinzhi: “No, I just forgot.” Ex-boyfriend number one: “Whose bed are you sleeping in now? Do you know that’s cheating?” Zhu Jinzhi was speechless. “Dude, we broke up!” Ex-boyfriend number one: “I didn’t agree to it.” Zhu Jinzhi: “…” After crying on the phone, ex-boyfriend number one murmured, “I’ve figured it out. I still can’t live without you. No matter how promiscuous you are, I’m willing to accept it. We…” Zhu Jinzhi shuddered and hurriedly hung up. That was exactly why she was afraid of guys who still pined for her after a breakup. They were genuinely terrifying! - Six months later, the strategic project restarted, and Zhu Jinzhi had had enough of playing the kept woman. She broke up with him and walked away without hesitation. Not long after returning to Beijing, ex-boyfriend number two came after her. He was even more difficult to deal with than number one. The project had just begun, and Zhu Jinzhi was so busy every day that she barely had time to catch her breath. After thinking it over carefully, she still went home with him and moved in. Who knew Beijing could be so small? Before long, she ran into Wen Xuezhong at a summit. She was holding ex-boyfriend number two’s arm, and the two groups came face to face. Wen Xuezhong looked her and the man over, smiling faintly. “Is this a friend of Zhizhi’s?” Zhu Jinzhi: “No, he’s my brother…” Ex-boyfriend number two: “Her first love.” Zhu Jinzhi fell silent. It wasn’t exactly wrong, but she would rather describe him as the childhood friend she’d foolishly fallen for when she was young and inexperienced. - From that day on, her life became a tangled mess of three ex-boyfriends with serious issues. - ○ Includes: an inversion of the kept-woman trope, the heroine faking her death at the beginning, an old flame reigniting, a first love with a pseudo-incest setup, a lofty beauty falling from her pedestal, an arrogant rich heir humbly begging for love, a tsundere guy turning into a crying loser, and a group of principled, larger-than-life men fighting tooth and nail to become the heroine’s devoted dogs. ○ All-male-leads romance, not a pick-your-husband story. ○ The heroine is a state-secret asset. The male leads find information that is not her real profile. ○ All male leads are virgins. ○ My heroine knows how to love, because a love story without love would be terribly boring. - Ex-boyfriend number one 🐶: Famous esports player, second-generation celebrity who has acted in films, short-tempered and clingy, a shamelessly direct guy who knows how to play the pitiful abandoned puppy Ex-boyfriend number two 🦊: Cool, aloof, brilliant beauty, gloomy ghost of a man, self-made rising star, her stepbrother (they are no longer registered in the same household) Powerful man 🦁: Gentle old-school gentleman on the surface, domineering father type, mature and steady, head of a wealthy family - Theme: A successful woman who manages both her career and love life.