The Real Heiress Won't Chase Anymore—Big Shot, Stay Calm and Don't Go Crazy

Romance · Modern Day

A true heiress who never tortures herself emotionally × a self-restrained, abstinent fake gentleman who is actually a lunatic

The heroine stops chasing him halfway and runs, the hero loses his mind and turns to forced love + six-year age gap + 1v1

Nian Xunxia has always been the best at backing down.

Whether family affection or love—if it is not meant to be, then it is not meant to be.

As long as she runs fast enough, the love-triangle chaos cannot catch up to her.

The only time she ever insisted on forcing something was when she got bold enough to pursue the absurdly handsome good neighbor next door.

But Qi Chong’an is hard to win over.

Watching the man’s back in the rain, she pouts and cries so hard she can barely stop.

Forget it, forget it. She cannot make sense of this relationship.

But when she decides to run away, things start to go wrong.

Qi Chong’an was born at the top of the pyramid.

Everyone admires him, fears him, dreads him, and wants to become him.

Everyone knows that the one in power in the Qi family hates everything that falls outside order.

And yet someone barges unreasonably into his life.

Beautiful, straightforward, reckless,

with a heart-itching sort of fearless courage,

and an enthusiasm that burns hot for only three minutes before dying out.

The phrase Qi Chong’an hears most often from Nian Xunxia is:

“You’re a good person.”

She chases him because he is a good person, and gives up on him because he is a good person.

He scoffs at her praise.

What Nian Xunxia does not know is that the real Qi Chong’an only wears gentleness on the surface.

Underneath, he is nasty, arrogant, cold-hearted, indifferent,

with a possessiveness as strong as his desire to crush,

and above all,

he hates people who give up halfway.

Later,

that “good person” Qi Chong’an kisses her in front of her “new boyfriend.”

His long fingers trace her slender neck, almost pinching, almost not.

“Nian Xunxia, have you ever seen the roots of bamboo?”

Beneath the upright restraint of bamboo above ground,

buried in the soil,

are tangled, savage desires.