Light and Wild

[Pure, alluring heroine vs. a calculating, restrained university professor & a playboy in appearance but devoted in love, a young wolfdog & a shy, reserved college boy with a possessive streak] [Strangers in public, tangled up in private] [Male rivals competing for the heroine, male lead is devoted] My aunt was born a ravishing beauty. Everyone was enchanted by her. Everyone except He Xiuyan, who couldn't care less about her. He only ever doted on me, the wild child unloved by my father and mother. People around me urged me to move on: Find someone else to love. Men are all pleasure-seeking and lustful. One day, He Xiuyan will fall for someone like your aunt. If you keep loving him without being loved in return, you'll end up hurt inside and out. I refused to listen, convinced that He Xiuyan wasn't the vain, shallow man obsessed with beauty they claimed he was. I believed he would always choose me. But in the year I loved He Xiuyan most, he cheated on me. On a hotel bed, He Xiuyan held his affair partner protectively in his arms. The woman was my aunt. It was as if he was afraid I might do something to her. The very next day, he took my aunt abroad, calling her his girlfriend. The love I'd believed in and been so proud of was utterly shattered. I became a laughingstock, the butt of everyone's jokes. Humiliation and resentment consumed me. Men really were all the same, chasing pleasure and beauty. What trash. I secretly vowed that one day, I would make everyone pay in full for their betrayal and the humiliation they'd put me through. And that day came soon enough. A year later, He Xiuyan returned to the country...