【World-weary, aloof heir to a wealthy family X sweet, soft, sunny girl】
【Eight-year age gap + super sweet + Beijing’s elite circles + rationality crumbling】
Gu Lishang, the abstinent, aloof heir to one of Beijing’s most powerful families, keeps his distance from women. The strand of black Buddhist prayer beads around his wrist is especially eye-catching, lending him an air of detachment from the world.
Watching his friends immerse themselves in worldly pleasures, he says, “Not interested. Don’t understand it. But I respect it.”
Until one day, pushed to the brink by his family’s attempts to arrange a marriage, Gu Lishang declares, “I’m not getting married. I’m joining a monastery.”
Mr. Gu tries every possible way to get him to loosen up, but fails every time.
Then he meets Song Xi, a poor girl who’s been kicked out by her family and has nowhere to turn.
By a twist of fate, Song Xi takes a bottle of liquor to the wrong private room and runs into Gu Lishang.
Gu Lishang prides himself on being able to resist temptation, but the moment this sweet, soft woman is in his arms, every cell in his body cries out beyond his control.
“What’s that scent you’re wearing?”
“Some kind of bewitching perfume?”
From then on, Gu Lishang is stricken with a poison called Song Xi: breathtakingly tender, utterly intoxicating, and impossible to quit. For her, he willingly descends from his lofty pedestal.
Before, while everyone else clocked out, Gu Lishang would work late into the night.
Now, while everyone else is so busy their keyboards are practically sparking, Gu Lishang leaves early.
“When it’s time to clock out, clock out. When it’s time to go home, go home. My little wife can’t live without me, so I’m off.”
Just who can’t live without whom?
So they’re the wage slaves, while Gu Lishang turns out to be the lovesick one?
