Intoxicated by the Allure of the Capital

[Gentle, calculating psychiatrist × sharp-tongued, haughty Beijing power player]

[Sickly black lotus × younger, fatherly mad dog]

[Secret love / redemption / older woman-younger man romance / rekindled love / sweet and angsty]

Tong Hua is Sakura University’s campus belle, a dazzling wild rose, breathtakingly beautiful, cool and taciturn, like the moon in the heavens. Qi Yu looks well-behaved, but he’s wild and sharp-tongued, and famously uninterested in sex.

The two of them could barely string ten words together when sitting side by side, yet someone caught them kissing like they couldn’t bear to part.

Everyone thought Qi Yu had only been attracted to Tong Hua’s looks, with no real feelings involved. Then Tong Hua broke up with him, and the usually arrogant Qi Yu shed tears with red-rimmed eyes. That was when everyone realized:

Qi Yu had truly fallen for her.

Four years later, they meet again. Qi Yu has risen to become the head of the powerful Qi family in western Beijing, a princeling of the capital’s elite. His moods are unpredictable, and he’s gloomy and violent. If he can make someone’s life difficult, he won’t settle for merely making it a little harder. People tremble at the mere mention of him.

Tong Hua, now renamed Jiang Yumian, has become a psychiatrist and is also the niece of Qi Yu’s stepmother. To repay her aunt’s kindness, Jiang Yumian willingly follows the family’s arrangements for an alliance marriage. She’s docile, accommodating, and famous for being the perfect young lady.

Except when it comes to Qi Yu, whom she treats with scathing insults and utmost disdain.

Qi Yu calls her a heartless bastard, so that very night Jiang Yumian knocks him into the hospital.

After he is discharged, Qi Yu retaliates by deliberately ruining Jiang Yumian’s marriage, which was all but set in stone.

And so they keep trading blows and making each other miserable, both wishing the other would just drop dead.

On the eve of Jiang Yumian’s engagement banquet, Qi Yu shows up at her door. Holding two brand-new marriage certificates, his eyes bloodshot, he drops straight to his knees.

“Baby, I was wrong. Don’t leave me.”