Shi Jingjing

He is powerful, aloof, and selfish, but he has a hobby of renting a venue solely to listen to her play the pipa. His friends were curious and asked him why. He said, "She's beautiful." Thus, the pipa player became his girlfriend.

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Brought up under strict parenting, his family pays great attention to his conduct. Yet, he was known for his vigorous actions, from breaking family rules that garnered media attention to recklessly manipulating the venture capital market. Consequently, he was sent to a temple to copy Buddhist scriptures as punishment. Obediently, he did so, but his pages were filled with nothing but her name.

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Gazing into her eyes as she lay in his arms, he asked, "Have you ever been afraid of being with me?" Of course, she did. He was a tycoon who possessed the world and would not easily fall deeply in love with her.
On the day they broke up, everyone knew and was surprised.
She packed her suitcase and left the city, saying, "Since he said he would never marry me, I shall return him to the world."

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Three years after their breakup, they met again at an international financial summit. He had become the head of the family. His suit was well tailored, with silver-rimmed glasses resting on a tall nose bridge, exuding undeniable charm.
Encountering each other at a corner, she fled, and he pursued...

A Twisted Love Affair

Shen Jing swung her club. "You could tell just by the sound?"

"Easy to recognize," Xie Qinyang said, taking another shot.

People who had only met her a few times could recognize it. Wouldn't Zhou Luchen know her accent? Wouldn't he know where she was from? Yet he never asked.

In the end, Xie Qinyang didn't ask for the specific reason either. Why pry into someone's privacy for no reason? He was just curious and trying to make conversation.

"Want one?" Xie Qinyang politely asked while smoking, even tapping out a cigarette to offer Shen Jing.

Curiosity. That's just how she was. She wanted to know if the He Tianxia cigarettes and the Huanghe Building ones in Xie Qinyang's hands tasted different.

But she didn't even know how to hold a cigarette. Seeing this, Xie Qinyang reconsidered and decided against giving it to her.

131 what do you want me to do to coax you?_1