In the glass-and-steel towers of high finance, where balance sheets decide fates and betrayal comes wearing a tailored suit, Sylvie Jaine's world detonates over a routine interview. The acclaimed financial reporter doesn't just catch her boyfriend cheating — she watches him trade her in for someone richer, better-connected, and utterly shameless about it. Most people would cry into a wineglass. Sylvie pulls up a family tree and draws a line straight to the top: Stefan Yard, the billionaire CEO who happens to be her rival's young uncle.

The plan is sabotage dressed up as seduction. Become the step-aunt of the woman who stole her man, and salt the earth of her ex's ambitions forever. Sylvie deploys every weapon in her arsenal — chance encounters, business scoops, the kind of eye contact that lingers a half-second too long. But Stefan Yard, the "cold-faced lion" of the corporate world, doesn't react according to script. Beneath the icy exterior is a man who listens when she talks shop, who sees through her performance without walking away, and whose rare, unguarded smiles hit her harder than any revenge fantasy ever did. When the truth detonates — and it always does — the question isn't whether Sylvie can salvage her scheme. It's whether she can salvage herself after realising the one man she set out to destroy her enemy with is the one man she can't bear to lose.

Also known as: 错撩, Cuo Liao, Accidental Love, Beautiful Mistake, Only for Love.