Chapter 1: A Night Together

#Chi Yang Drunkenly Turns into a Menace#

#Hua You Capital’s Xie Youci Gets Harassed#

#Heiress of the Chi Family and Crown Prince of the Xie Family Allegedly Spotted Spending the Night Together at Lanting Hotel#

#Marriage Alliance Between the Chi and Xie Families Rumored#

The media in Beijing exploded with headlines.

One sensational report after another flooded the internet, exposing shocking gossip from the upper circles of high society.

Lanting Hotel.

Inside the ultra-luxurious presidential suite, Chi Yang shoved Xie Youci into the bathroom. The shower was already running, soaking both of them from head to toe.

Steam filled the air.

Tension lingered between them.

Xie Youci caught her by the waist. The sharp lines of his fingers and the faint veins standing out along the back of his hand betrayed just how hard he was restraining himself.

“Chi Yang.”

His back pressed against the tiled wall. Tilting his chin slightly upward, he let the water stream down the contours of his face, tracing over his brows and eyes before slipping past his parted lips and disappearing along his collarbone.

“Get a hold of yourself.”

His voice was low and hoarse with warning.

“If you keep this up…”

He fixed his gaze on her.

“I won’t be responsible for what happens tonight.”

Chi Yang staggered slightly, her vision blurred with alcohol.

She lifted her face and looked at him in confusion. Her eyes seemed to carry invisible hooks, and beneath the shower water they looked like roses kissed by morning dew.

“Won’t be responsible?”

The corners of her reddened eyes curved upward.

“When have you ever acted like a decent person?”

“You—”

Xie Youci’s throat tightened.

He was already standing at the edge of losing control. Reaching out, he turned the water to cold, desperately trying to salvage what little rationality remained amid this absurdly dangerous temptation.

But Chi Yang was in no mood to cooperate.

She reached out and lightly brushed her fingers across his prominent Adam’s apple.

Then, rising onto her tiptoes, she kissed him.

The instant her soft lips touched him—

Xie Youci felt his mind go blank.

Heat surged into his ears, and the restraint he had clung to for so long seemed to snap all at once.

He tipped his head back and closed his eyes.

His throat bobbed sharply.

The air itself trembled with unspoken desire.

After a long moment, Xie Youci let out a helpless sigh.

In the end, he had failed to escape this.

Or perhaps—

He had fallen in a single second.

Resigned, he lowered his head to look at her. Yet before kissing her back, he still asked several times, just to be sure.

“Chi Yang… can you see clearly who I am?”

“X-Xie… dog…”

“What?”

“Xie… You… ci…”

—

Chi Yang jolted awake.

The room was a mess.

Clothes lay scattered across the floor. Water from the bathroom had soaked into the carpet, darkening its color. Everything around her served as undeniable evidence of last night’s recklessness.

Then—

An arm suddenly tightened around her waist.

Her heart nearly stopped.

Turning her head stiffly, she found exactly the face she least wanted to see—the face that made her want to flush it straight down a toilet every time she looked at it.

Xie Youci was still asleep.

Most of the blanket had somehow ended up wrapped around Chi Yang, leaving only a lonely corner draped over his waist.

He lay on his side.

One arm rested naturally around her.

His half-naked body, the defined lines of his abs, and the faint scratch marks scattered across his skin were all shamelessly exposed to her gaze.

And with that, the memories of what had happened came rushing back.

Chi Yang was mortified.

Flustered and furious, she shoved Xie Youci away and sat upright, clutching the blanket tightly around herself. Her beautiful eyes turned red with embarrassment, shimmering with tears that threatened to spill.

Smack—!

A crisp slap echoed through the room.

Without hesitation, Chi Yang swung her hand and planted it squarely across Xie Youci’s arrogant, infuriatingly handsome face.

“Xie. You. Ci!”

She glared at him with reddened eyes.

“We’ve been enemies for years, but I never imagined you’d stoop this low!”

Her voice trembled with indignation.

“Using something this shameless to get revenge on me!”

—

Chi Yang — a dazzling, high-born beauty and gifted painter.

Xie Youci — an untamed powerhouse of Beijing’s elite circles.

A proud, lovestruck wolf-dog hero completely wrapped around the spoiled heiress’s finger.

A domineering king of cool gradually transformed into a jealous, hopeless romantic.

Childhood sweethearts.

Marriage before love.

A pair of bickering rivals who fight openly and flirt secretly.

Welcome to the world of the Chi Yang × Xie Youci couple.