Breaking Free from His Favoritism

[Stealing the girl from another man, both leads are each other's only partners. A false gentleman from a scholarly family versus a fair-skinned beauty pretending to be everyone's ideal first love.] Qi Suining was Zhou Jinyan's ideal first love for five years, becoming a lucky charm known to everyone in Hangcheng. Zhou Jinyan was a born winner, always the center of attention wherever he went. But when it came to pursuing Qi Suining, he hit one wall after another. During the years Qi Suining spent abroad, beautiful women flocked around Young Master Zhou. But they were all stand-ins, each one resembling his ideal first love, Qi Suining. Later, when she returned, Zhou Jinyan proposed to her in front of everyone on her birthday. But she replied with innocent vulnerability, “I'm already engaged.” Qi Suining had always known what an ideal first love was supposed to be: gentle, refined, delicate, and pitiable. She had always played the role diligently. Until one day, outside the Qi family gates, an elegant, handsome man came toward her with an umbrella and said, “Suining, your acting is terrible.” Qi Yuli, Hangcheng's foremost tycoon, was the heir raised by a scholarly family with a century of history. Refined and self-possessed, courteous and elegant, he was famous in their circle as the very model of a gentleman. At the time, heavy snow blanketed the city. Trying to escape Zhou Jinyan's control, Qi Suining took the initiative and sought him out. The young woman crouched under his umbrella, her eyes brimming with tears. “Mr. Qi, I know you're a gentleman. Would you pretend to get engaged to me?” But no one knew that in a secluded tattoo shop, the elegant, jade-like man had stepped inside and calmly had a magnolia flower tattooed on his collarbone. The woman he loved wasn't anyone's ideal first love. She was the crystal-clear frost and snow atop a mountain peak, and he was willing to keep her warm for the rest of their lives. #I set my sights on your ideal first love #Waiting faithfully is no match for stealing her away