Eight years ago, the heroine Chloe's life was shattered when both her parents were killed in a horrific car crash. At the scene, Ethan — president of the Li Corporation, known to all as "BOSS" — reached out his hand and took her into his home. Ethan was an old friend of Chloe's parents, ten years her senior. A prodigy who graduated from Harvard at fifteen, he went on to take over a global financial empire and became the richest man in the capital. For eight years, he cared for Chloe like both a brother and a father, doting on her in every way — and somewhere in those days spent side by side, Chloe quietly fell in love with him.
On her eighteenth birthday, Chloe made a wish — "I want to be with Ethan forever" — and kissed him, only to be pushed away hard: "I'm your parents' friend. I don't like you." Their relationship froze over from that day on. Then one night, a drunk Ethan stumbled into Chloe's room, and the two slept together — and in his drunken murmurs, Ethan let slip a staggering secret: "If only your parents hadn't been killed by my family."
Misunderstandings and Tormented Love, Escalating Layer by Layer
Ethan secretly ordered his assistant Leo to investigate the connection between the car crash eight years ago and his own grandfather, with strict instructions: "Chloe must never find out." To push Chloe away and shield her from the truth, he staged an act of his own: he announced that Mia — a cello teacher and heiress of the Mu family — was h
